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events 2010
Monday, May 17
4:30–6:30, Home RoomBilingual Hebrew-English reading of Alex Epstein’s Blue Has No South
University of Chicago's International House
1414 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773 753 2270
A Q&A and moderated discussion will follow, with Na’ama Rokem (the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) and Jason Grunebaum (the Committee on Creative Writing, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Thursday–Tuesday, May 13–18
Conference on Contemporary Hebrew Writing in TranslationIncludes lectures and master class with Epstein and McKay
Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Details, 773 834 8524
Sunday, May 2
Alex Epstein readingSchoen Books
Old Firehouse
7 Sugarloaf St
South Deerfield, MA 01373
413 665 0066
Friday, April 30
8–9:30 pmPEN World Voices Festival
The Translation Slam
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street
New York, NY
Back for the third year running is the fast, fascinating, and fun Translation Slam. Borrowed from our friends in Montreal, and fine-tuned to a New York bent, the Translation Slam puts translators in the spotlight in a duel to the literary — not to say literal— death. Joining us for tonight’s tussle are Germany’s Thomas Pletzinger and Martin Pollack, who will be translating Cathy Park Hong, and Assaf Gavron and Barbara Harshav, who will tackle the work of Alex Epstein in Hebrew.
Friday, April 30
1–2:30 pmPreston Allen, Alex Epstein, Aleksandar Hemon, Monique Proulx, & Martin Solares
PEN World Voices Festival
Short Stories: Past, Present, and Future
moderated by the New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman
Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue
New York, NY
What virtues and challenges are unique to the short story, as opposed to the novel, the essay, or the poem? What is the relationship between “flash fiction” and the traditional short story? How flexible is the form? And why is it that, even now—after Poe, Chekov, Hemingway, O’Connor, Nabokov, and Munro—the short story often gets less respect, in terms of prizes and critical esteem, than the novel? Join acclaimed practitioners of the form from Bosnia, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and the United States, for a conversation about the past, present, and future of the short story.
Monday, April 26
7–8:30 pmLorraine Adams, Alex Epstein, Andrea Levy, & Norman Rush
PEN World Voices Festival
Women, Sex, and Fiction panel presented by Guernica Magazine, moderated by Claire Messud
WNYC Jerome L.Greene Performance Space
44 Charlton Street
New York, NY
Join moderator and lauded novelist Claire Messud and a prestigious panel in a lively debate on gender, culture, and literature in translation. In the 21st century, few writers want to be classified by gender, ethnicity, or the language in which they write. They'd prefer to be considered just writers now, mindful of Elizabeth Bishop's observation on gender that “art is art and to separate writings, paintings, musical compositions, etc. into two sexes is to emphasize values that are not art.” Of the Modern Library's top 100 novels of the 20th century, only nine were by women (two by Edith Wharton). Like the Modern Library's, most best-of lists include only those written in English. And less than one percent of literary fiction and poetry published in the U.S. are works in translation. Joining Messud are National Book Award-winner Norman Rush, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lorraine Adams, Orange Prize-winner Andrea Levy, and Israeli novelist Alex Epstein to take on many of the toughest questions facing world literature today.
Saturday–Sunday, April 24–25
Alex EpsteinLos Angeles Times Book Festival
Los Angeles, California
Friday–Saturday, April 23–24
Juniper Literary Festival book fairFine Arts Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01002
Friday, April 16
4:30–6:30 pmEdwidge Danticat, Mitchell Kaplan, Becka Mara McKay & Pam Thompson
Panel: World Literature in the United States
Wesley Gallery, Stanford Drive (across from the Lowe Art Museum)
University of Miami
Miami, FL
Monday, April 12
Alex Epstein7pm
John Fowles Center
Dee & Don Henley Reading Room, Leatherby Libraries
1 University Drive
Chapman University
Orange, California
Saturday, April 10
Alex Epstein introduces Etger Keret7:15pm
Denver Film Society
Starz FilmCenter
900 Auraria Parkway
Denver, Colorado
Wednesday–Saturday, April 7–10
Associated Writing Programs Conference2010 Annual Conference & Bookfair
Exhibit Hall A, D14
(with special guest Akashic Books)
Hyatt Regency Denver & Colorado Convention Center
Denver, Colorado
Thursday, February 11
Ersi Sotiropoulos, Karen Emmerich, & Karen Van Dyck6:30pm
reading, discussion, & celebration three new Greek translations
Book Culture
536 West 112th Street
(between Broadway and Amsterdam)
New York, New York, 10025
212 865 1588
cosponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies at Columbia University
Tuesday, February 9
Ersi Sotiropoulos6pm reading
7pm wine & cheese reception
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
New York University
1 Washington Place
New York, NY
events 2009
Sunday, November 15
Reading and book launch with Uzma Aslam Khan3pm
Revolution Books
2626 South King Street
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Sunday, September 13
Brooklyn Book Festival10am–6pm
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
Brooklyn, New York
Thursday–Sunday, May 28–31
Book Expo AmericaJacob Javits Center
New York, New York
Interlink booth #4952
Saturday, May 30
Rachid El Daif in conversation with Pam ThompsonEl Daif, the acclaimed Lebanese novelist, is the author, most recently, of Learning English
4:30–5:00pm
Downtown Stage
Jacob Javits Center
Wednesday, May 13
Translation workshop with Karen Emmerich:Impossible Things? Poetry in Translation
6:00-8:00pm
Mechanics' Institute Library Meeting Room, 4th Floor
57 Post Street
San Francisco
Tuesday May 12
Karen Emmerich reads from her translations12:30–1:30pm
Center for the Art of Translation
111 Minna Gallery, 2nd Street and Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Friday–Saturday, April 24–25
Juniper Literary Festival book fairFine Arts Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01002
Saturday, March 7
Literature and the “Real” Arab WorldAdania Shibli, Radwa Ashour, and Ahmed El-Fagih
on a panel moderated by Khaled Mattawa
11am–12:30pm
Family Theater
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20566
800 444 1324
Friday, March 6
Reception and reading with Adania Shibli and poet Fadhil El Azzawi5–7pm
Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World
Concert Hall Box Tier
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20566
800 444 1324
RSVP by email to kcreception@arabculturefund.org
Wednesday–Saturday, February 11–14
Associated Writing Programs ConferenceChicago Hilton
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
312 922 4400
Interlink Booth #242