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Tuesday, April 29
The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast
6 p.m.: Goethe-Institut New York
An Evening with Michel Tremblay; interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel
7 p.m.: The Americas Society
Circumference Celebrates Poetry in Translation
7 p.m.: Housing Works Bookstore Café
Exile
8 p.m.: University at Albany, Uptown Campus
Crisis Darfur: A Conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy
8 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($15/$10: Ticketmaster/FIAF box office)
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Wednesday, April 30
Witness: A Special Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
New Directions in Spanish Language Literature
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Michel Tremblay: Bringing Theater to New Audiences in Translation
1 p.m.: La Maison Française of NYU
Five Years of the PEN Translation Fund: A Celebration
1 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
History in the Mirror
6 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
Rewriting Family
7 p.m.: Housing Works Bookstore Café
Readings: Public Lives/Private Lives
8 p.m.: The Town Hall ($15/$10: Ticketmaster)
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Thursday, May 1
Small World, Big Choices: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Burma: A Land at a Crossroads
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
In Treatment: A Literary Conversation
1 p.m.: The Mercantile Library
Writing Genocide
1 p.m. CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
1 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
Soldiers, Gramophones, and Brecht: A Literary Conversation
2:30 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Great Works
2:30 p.m.: Baruch College
Writing Reality Under the Guard of Correction
3 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Personal Narrative and Public Consciousness
3 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
The Secret Lives of Cities
4 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Ways of Seeing: Michel Tremblay and the Stage
5 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
Publishers Weekly: On Translation
6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Inside Out: The Public and Private Lives of Children
6 p.m.: Scholastic Auditorium
Yalo: A Literary Conversation with Elias Khoury
6 p.m.: Mercantile Library
Open Letter Presents Salman Rushdie & Umberto Eco
6 p.m.: University of Rochester
TimesTalks: American Literature Seen from Abroad
6:30 p.m.: TheTimesCenter
Thomas Bernhard and the Art of Failure
7 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Writing Place, Finding Refuge
7 p.m.: Brooklyn Public Library
A. B. Yehoshua in Conversation
7 p.m.: Center for Jewish History ($15/$10: Smarttix)
The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling
7 p.m.: The Museum at Eldridge Street ($30/$25: Smarttix)
Theater and Poetry: Visions and Metaphor
7 p.m. CUNY Segal Theater
An Evening of Poetry with Joan Margarit & Philip Levine
7 p.m.: Housing Works Bookstore Café
Gomorrah: Infiltrating the Mafia
8 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Translation Slam
9 p.m.: Bowery Poetry Club ($5)
Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State
9 p.m.: Joe’s Pub ($10/$8)
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Friday, May 2
Making Art of History: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
The Publisher, the Poet, the Editor, and His Novels
12 p.m.: Deutsches Haus at NYU
Readings from Europe and Mexico
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Reading the World
1 p.m.: Scandinavia House
Readings from Around the Globe
1:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Bookforum: Political Engagement
1:30 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Short Stories
2:30 p.m.: Scandinavia House
Writing the Story of Life in Fact and Fiction
3:30 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Crossing Borders
3:30 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
The Mean Streets
5 p.m.: Scandinavia House
Leaving Home
5:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Writing Sex and Sexuality
5:30 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
The Three Musketeers Reunited
7:30 p.m.: 92nd Street Y ($20/$15: Smarttix)
Wristcutters: A Film Screening and Q&A with Etgar Keret
8 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
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Saturday, May 3
Fiction from Fact
12 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Epic Journeys
1 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
News from The Hub
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($12/$8: Ticketmaster)
Private Lives, Public Lives, Other Lives, New Lives
1 p.m.: Goethe-Institut New York
Memoir and Reportage: An African Perspective
1:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($12/$8: Ticketmaster)
Conversation with Ian McEwan & Steven Pinker
2 p.m.: The Morgan Library & Museum
Correspondences: Bilingual Reading and Conversation with Coral Bracho
2 p.m.: NYPL Mulberry St. Branch
Olympic Voices: A Celebration of New Literature from China
2:30 p.m.: Asia Society
NoPassport: Writing and Political Responsibility in Theater
2:30 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
Fractures: Psychic Rifts/Writerly Riffs
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($12/$8: Ticketmaster)
African Wars
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($12/$8: Ticketmaster)
Do You Believe?
4 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
A Tribute to Robert Walser
4 p.m.: The Morgan Library & Museum ($15/$10: Smarttix)
The Art of Translation
4 p.m.: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House of NYU ($5/free)
Reshaping the Classics: A Dialogue with Ximena Escalante and Migdalia Cruz
4:30 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
Writing Out Loud: The Importance of Storytelling in Growing up as a Writer
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Learning to Speak
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($12/$8: Ticketmaster)
A Believer Nighttime Event
6 p.m.: Tishman Auditorium, The New School
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
6:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($12/$8: Ticketmaster)
Cultural Responsibility and the Role of the Writer
6:30 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
Review of Contemporary Fiction Presents New Catalan Poetry
8 p.m.: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
PEN Cabaret:
8 p.m.: Webster Hall ($30/25; table tickets available at $50/person)
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Sunday, May 4
Adventures in the Skin Trade: A Conversation with Colum McCann & Michael Ondaatje
12 p.m.: New York Public Library ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Conversation: Péter Esterházy & Wayne Koestenbaum
12 p.m.: New York Public Library ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Conversation: Jeffrey Eugenides & Daniel Kehlmann
2 p.m.: New York Public Library ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Truth and Reconciliation: A National Reckoning
2 p.m.: New York Public Library ($15/$10: Smarttix)
We Went to Wonderland: A Film by Xiaolu Guo
2 p.m.: The Rubin Museum of Art ($15)
Books That Changed My Life
4 p.m.: New York Public Library ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Conversation: Bernhard Schlink & André Aciman
4 p.m.: New York Public Library ($15/$10: Smarttix)
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Umberto Eco
6:30 p.m.: The Cooper Union Great Hall ($15/$10: Smarttix)
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Monday, May 5
International Authors in Boston
7:30 p.m.: The Harvard Coop: 1400 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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