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12:00-1:30
Conversation: Ha Jin and Eliot Weinberger
Where: Dactyl Foundation: 64 Grand St., Ground Floor
Co-sponsored by Dactyl Foundation
Free
2:00–4:00
Crossing Borders: Universal Themes in Children's Literature
Cornelia Funke, Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton, Pat Mora, Kyoko Mori, Salman Rushdie; moderated by Lois Lowry
All
books reflect the impact of their authors' emotional and cultural
worlds, but which themes and stories are universal in children’s books?
A panel of distinguished writers from Germany, India, Japan, Kenya, and
the United States will discuss their work in fantasy, autobiography,
poetry, and realistic fiction. They will exchange views on what makes
work universal, while remaining true to its own unique reality.
Where: National Museum of the American Indian: 1 Bowling Green
Co-sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Free
2:00–3:30
World Literature Today: Writers from Three Hemispheres
Achmat Dangor, Cees Nooteboom, Jordi Puntí, Laura Restrepo; Introduced by David Draper Clark, Editor-in-Chief, World Literature Today
Where: Housing Works Used Book Café: 126 Crosby St.
Co-sponsored by Housing Works Used Book Café
Free
4:00–6:00
The Global Quixote: Reinventing Cervantes
Jean Canavaggio, Edith Grossman, Susanne Lange, Aleksandra Mancic, Aline Shulman, Barber van de Pol
Borges’s
Pierre Menard could not be with us, but this gathering does include
translators into English, Dutch, German, Serbian, and other languages
who all share Menard’s experience of transforming and recreating
Cervantes’s masterpiece for a different place and time. These virtuoso
literary performers will discuss their art, and the specific issues of
rendering the Quixote into their particular context.
Where: Instituto Cervantes: 211–215 East 49th St.
Co-sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes and the Centenario del Quijote de Castilla La Mancha
Free
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4:00–6:00
Literature and Power
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Francine Prose, Shashi Tharoor, Oksana Zabuzhko; moderated by John Ralston Saul
Festival participants engage for the first time with a theme certain to recur throughout the week: the writer’s vexed relation to political power. Does the history of the last century offer much support for the view that the literary imagination brings any special purchase on political wisdom? Can literature mitigate the pressures of ideology and nationalism, or is it destined to be their servant and apologist? Do writers have any special responsibilities beyond those of other citizens?
Where: National Museum of the American Indian: 1 Bowling Green
Co-sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Free
7:00–9:00
International Noir
Jakob Arjouni, Natsuo Kirino, Luc Sante, Paco Ignacio Taibo; moderated by Robert Polito
Most American readers are familiar with the notion of noir as “secret history.” From Dashiell Hammett through Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, and on to James Ellroy and Walter Mosley, crime novels inscribed a black-mirror twentieth-century America far more dishonest and bloody than the country of official chronicles. But much as once all politics famously were local, from now on most crimes will be global. This evening we present some distinguished exemplars of “International Noir” along with some notable noir cognoscenti.
Where: National Museum of the American Indian: 1 Bowling Green
Co-sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and New York Review Books
Free
9:00–10:30
Reading: Banned Voices
Margaret Atwood, Antoine Audouard, Anouar Benmalek, Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, Shahrnush Parsipur, Francine Prose, Wole Soyinka, Huang Xiang, and other Festival authors read from writers who were not able to attend the Festival.
Where: KGB Bar: 85 East 4th St.
Co-sponsored by KGB Bar
Free
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To purchase books by World Voices participants, please visit McNally Robinson Booksellers at 50 Prince Street, between Lafayette and Mulberry Streets.  |
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