{"id":288226,"date":"2011-11-21T19:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T19:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/11\/21\/rtwcs-ledig-house-2011\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:50","slug":"rtwcs-ledig-house-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/11\/21\/rtwcs-ledig-house-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"RTWCS: Ledig House 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year we include a special Ledig House event as part of our Reading the World Conversation Series. This is one of our most popular events every season, in part because it includes such a diverse range of speakers, writing in a range of genres. <\/p>\n<p>The three guests that participated in this year&#8217;s event were: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chika Unigwe, the author of the critically acclaimed <em>On Black Sisters Street<\/em>, a novel about four women who left their African homeland to work the red light district in Antwerp, and have their lives irrevocably altered when one of them is murdered;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mads Mygind, a Danish poet whose debut poetry collection\u2014<i>For vi har set os omkring<\/i>\u2014came out this past February to critical acclaim. In addition to writing poetry, Mags founded \u201cVerbal Pupils,\u201d an annual poetry festival; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Mioni, a translator from English into Italian, who will read from her translation of Tom McCarthy\u2019s C and talk about the Italian Translators Union, which she helped found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three were brilliant, and this event went remarkably well. <\/p>\n<p>And even if you don&#8217;t have the time to watch the whole thing, you <span class=\"caps\">MUST<\/span> go to the 7:15 mark to hear the most bad ass Danish poem <em>ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ioaerTyONKM\">here<\/a> to watch the whole video, or see the embedded section below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ioaerTyONKM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year we include a special Ledig House event as part of our Reading the World Conversation Series. This is one of our most popular events every season, in part because it includes such a diverse range of speakers, writing in a range of genres. The three guests that participated in this year&#8217;s event were: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[43706,43716,43686],"class_list":["post-288226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-anna-mioni","tag-chika-unigwe","tag-mads-mygind"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342226,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288226\/revisions\/342226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}