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HIGHLIGHTS

Crisis Darfur: A Conversation

The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film FeastApril 29, 2008 | The French Institute Alliance Française | New York City

With Mia Farrow & Bernard-Henri Levy

>> All Tuesday events


Town Hall Readings: Public Lives/Private Lives

The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film FeastApril 30, 2008 | The Town Hall | New York City

With Coral Bracho, Peter Esterhazy, Rian Malan, Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Annie Proulx, Salman Rushdie,  Evelyn Schlag, and A.B. Yehoshua

>> All Wednesday events


The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling

May 1, 2008 | The Museum at Eldridge Street | New York City
 
With Jonathan Ames, Andy Borowitz, Ana Castillo, Mike Daisey, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Rian Malan, and Annie Proulx

Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State

The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film FeastMay 1, 2008 | Joe’s Pub | New York City

With György Dragomán, Hasan Elahi, Asli Erdogan, Péter Esterházy, Chenjerai Hove, Irakli Kakabadze, Jenny Marketou, Ivy Meeropol, Francine Prose, and Ingo Schulze

>> All Thursday events


The Three Musketeers Reunited

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May 2, 2008 | 92nd St. Y | New York City

With Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, and Mario Vargas Llosa

>> All Friday events


A Tribute to Robert Walser

The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film FeastMay 3, 2008 | The Morgan Library & Museum | New York City

With Susan Bernofsky, Deborah Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eugenides, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Michael Krüger

>> All Saturday events


Adventures in the Skin Trade

May 4 | Adventures in the Skin Trade: A Conversation with Colum McCann and Michael Ondaatje

May 4, 2008 | The New York Public Library | New York City

With Colum McCann & Michael Ondaatje

>> All Sunday events

 

>> Full schedule of Festival events

PARTICIPANTS

André Aciman
(Egypt/U.S.)

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
(Saudi Arabia/Lebanon)

Todd Barry
(U.S.)

Coral Bracho
(Mexico)

Ian Buruma
(Netherlands/U.S./U.K.)

Peter Carey
(Australia/U.S.)

Fatou Diome
(Senegal/France)

Umberto Eco
(Italy)

Deborah Eisenberg
(U.S.)

Jeffrey Eugenides
(U.S.)

Nuruddin Farah
(Somalia/South Africa)

Yael Hedaya
(Israel)

Sebastian Horsley
(U.K.)

Chenjerai Hove
(Zimbabwe/Norway)

Uzodinma Iweala
(Nigeria/U.S.)

Rian Malan
(South Africa)

Colum McCann
(Ireland/U.S.)

Ian McEwan
(U.K.)

Amanda Michalopoulou
(Greece)

Catherine Millet
(France)

Rick Moody
(U.S.)

Antonio Muñoz Molina
(Spain)

Thant Myint-U
(Burma/U.S.)

Kristin Ómarsdóttir
(Iceland)

Steven Pinker
(Canada)

Annie Proulx
(U.S.)

Mary Robinson
(Ireland)

Roberto Saviano
(Italy)

Bernhard Schlink
(Germany)

Charles Simic
(Serbia/U.S.)

Saša Stanišić
(Bosnia/Germany)

Michel Tremblay
(Canada)

Mario Vargas Llosa
(Peru)

Abdourahman Waberi
(Djibouti/France)

Eliot Weinberger
(U.S.)

A.B. Yehoshua
(Israel)

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