Friday, April 24

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio & Adam Gopnik
8 p.m.: 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center

Saturday, April 25

Pictures + Words: The New Literature of Graphic Narrative
2 p.m.: The Rose O’Neill Literary House, Maryland

Monday, April 27

Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Joshua Wolf Shenk
7:30 p.m.: The Prince Theater, Maryland

Meir Shalev: The State of Israeli Literature
8 p.m.: Columbia University's Altschul Auditorium

Tuesday, April 28

Resonances: Writers on the Great Works
1 p.m.: Baruch College

The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast
7 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

A Thousand Deaths Plus One
7 p.m.: The Americas Society

Wednesday, April 29

The Inspired Scientist: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children’s Books to Create a Lifelong Love of Reading
4:30 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes

Anagrama: Celebrating 40 Years of Independent Publishing in Spain
6 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Prison Deform
6 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater

Women Translating Women
6:30 p.m.: The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction

Roland Barthes and the Invention of Modernity
6:30 p.m.: La Maison Française of NYU

Evolution/Revolution
8 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union

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Thursday, April 30

Personal Evolution, Social Revolution: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Jeffrey Sachs: Common Wealth
1 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium

Global Voices
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Orange Groves, Olives, and The Last Fish Tale
3 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium

Tendencies in Spanish Language Literature
4 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Kathrin Röggla: Modern Day Salarymen
4:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Language in New Forms: The Work of Andrey Platonov
6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling
6 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts: The Evolution of a Children’s Book Writer
6:30 p.m.: Scholastic Auditorium

Kafka in America
6:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Meir Shalev in Conversation with Daniel Menaker
7 p.m.: Center for Jewish History

Collaborations/Elaborations: The Music of Daniel Felsenfeld
7 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium

The New York Review of Books: The Economic Crisis and How to Deal with It
7:30 p.m.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Elegance of the Hedgehog: Muriel Barbery in Conversation with Adam Gopnik
8 p.m.: Cantor Film Center

The Moth Presents: (R)evolution: Stories of Change
7 p.m.: Galapagos Art Space

Island Dialogues: Poets from Cuba and the Balearic Islands
8 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

DEFIANCE: The Spirit of ’89
9 p.m.: Joe’s Pub

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Friday, May 1

Garden Readings
12:30 p.m.: Deutsches Haus at NYU

Macondo: Imaginary and Real
1 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

The Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Left/Right Literature: The Politics of Taking Up the Pen
1 p.m.: Scandinavia House

What’s Taboo?
3 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

This Critical Moment!
3 p.m.: Scandinavia House

Discovering Unbearable Truths
5 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Season of Migration to the North: The Work of Tayeb Salih
6 p.m.: Scandinavia House

Innocence and Guilt: Domenico Starnone in Conversation with Antonio Monda
6 p.m.: Instituto Italiano di Cultura

The Language of Fear: A PEN Journal Event
6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Hall

On the Edge: Writing in Post-Reunified Germany
6 p.m.: Deutsches Haus

Four/Négy
6:30 p.m.: Hungarian Cultural Center

Poetry Reading
7 p.m.: Bowery Poetry Club

Readings from Around the Globe
7:30 p.m.: 92nd St Y

Armin Petras: We Are Camera
8 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater

The Translation Slam
9 p.m.: Bowery Poetry Club

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Saturday, May 2

Tribute to Harold Pinter
11 a.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium

Coraline, Sandman: Books and Imagination: A Conversation with Neil Gaiman
1 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union

Mark Z. Danielewski and Rick Moody in Conversation
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
1 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

Writing and Reading Multilingual Haiti
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Where Truth Lies: A Conversation on the Art of Fiction
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

New European Poets
2 p.m.: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House

Jazz: The Revolution of Beat
2 p.m.: Galapagos Art Space

Writers Who Are Translators
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

1,000 Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling
2:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union

Enrique Vila-Matas & Paul Auster in Conversation
2:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Frankétienne: Haitian Identity
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Péter Nádas in Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn
3 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

Contested Territory
4 p.m.: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library

Revolutionary Writers: Yoshihiro Tatsumi in Conversation with Adrian Tomine
4:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union

East–West Storytelling
4:30 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

On Translation
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Krik? Krak!
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

The PEN Cabaret
7:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Death in Spring and The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda
8 p.m.: Baryshnikov Arts Center

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Sunday, May 3

The Pan-European Picnic Redux
1 p.m.: Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO, Brooklyn

David Grossman and Leonard Lopate in Conversation
1 p.m.: Museum of Jewish Heritage

Faith & Fiction
1 p.m.: powerHouse Arena

Richard Ford in Conversation with Nam Le
2 p.m.: The Morgan Library & Museum

The Secret Scripture: Sebastian Barry in Conversation with Roxanne Coady
3 p.m.: powerHouse Arena

Is Nonfiction Literature?
3 p.m.: Museum of Jewish Heritage

Henry Hudson at 400 Years: Amsterdam and New York City
4 p.m.: The Morgan Library & Museum

Evolution for Children: The Fight Goes On
4:30 p.m.: PowerHouse Arena

The Fourth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi
6:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union

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Monday, May 4

See Under: Love. David Grossman on Bruno Schulz
8 p.m.: 92nd Street Y