Schedule of Events

Conversation: Chico Buarque and Paul Auster

Confronting the Worst: Writing and Catastrophe

Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute

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Conversation: Ha Jin and Eliot Weinberger

Crossing Borders: Universal Themes in Children's Literature

World Literature Today: Writers from Three Hemispheres

The Global Quixote: Reinventing Cervantes

Literature and Power

International Noir

Reading: Banned Voices

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Conversation: Andreï Makine and Adam Gopnik; in French and English

Lunch and Conversation: Hanan al-Shaykh and Fadhil al-Azzawi, moderated by Khaled Mattawa

A Reading and Q&A for Young Adults: Cornelia Funke and Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton

The Power of the Pen: Does Writing Change Anything?

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Conversation: Assia Djebar and Lyonel Trouillot; in French with English translation

Conversation: Nancy Huston and Siri Hustvedt; in French and English

Reading and Conversation: Jose Manuel Prieto, Jordi Puntí, Laura Restrepo; introduced by Mary Louise Pratt

Writers and Iraq, presented by The New York Review of Books

Africa and the World: The Writer’s Role

Reporting on Transnational Migration: Ian Buruma and Carolin Emcke

Late Night, Love and Hate: Writing in/from Hostile Surroundings, hosted by Words Without Borders

Readings and Conversation: Victor Erofeyev and Lilian Faschinger; introduced by Philip Gourevitch

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Community and School Programs

Conversation: Hanan al-Shaykh and Salman Rushdie

Lunch and Conversation: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Achmat Dangor, interviewed by Yvette Christiansë

Reading: Núria Amat and Uwe Timm, hosted by TWO LINES: A Journal of Translation

Reading: Núria Amat and Uwe Timm, hosted by TWO LINES: A Journal of Translation

Reading and Conversation: Fadhil al-Azzawi, Breyten Breytenbach,  Joan Margarit Consarnau

A Believer Nighttime Event

Conversation: Gary Shteyngart and José Manuel Prieto; in Russian with English translation

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Virtual Forum

Conversation: Bei Dao and Shan Sa with Gish Jen

The Post-National Writer

Voices from the New Europe

“Strange Times, My Dear”: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature

The Way We Love Now

Durs Grünbein and Uwe Timm: New Translations

UniVerse: World Literary Voices

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Virtual Forum

Writing in a Different Language

Conversation: Michael Ondaatje and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, introduced by Peter Carey

Czeslaw Milosz and the Conscience of Literature

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