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Virtual Forum
Moderated by Andre Aciman
Where: www.wordswithoutborders.org
12:00–1:30
Reading: Rafael Chirbes, Patrick Roth, Peter Stamm; introduced by A. M. Homes
Where: McNally Robinson Booksellers: 50 Prince St.
2:00–4:00
Writing in a Different Language
Kader Abdolah, Shan Sa, Elif Shafak, Andreï Makine, Minae Mizumura; moderated by Elizabeth Klosty-Beaujour
Many
writers—Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett—have chosen to
write in a language that was not their first, but this seems to be
happening more frequently now than ever before. This panel brings
together writers who have—or could have—switched languages to talk
about what factors might lead a writer to make that decision, how the
language you write in affects what you write, and various other
pleasures and perils of moving from one linguistic space into another.
Where: The Leona and Marcy Chanin Language Center at Hunter College:
695 Park Ave., B126, West Building, entrance is on the Southwest corner
of 68th St. and Lexington Ave.
For more information: (212) 772-5095
Co-sponsored by The Hunter College School of Arts and Sciences and MFA Program in Creative Writing
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4:00–6:00
Conversation: Michael Ondaatje and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, introduced by Peter Carey
Where: Hunter College: 695 Park Ave., 8th Floor, West Building, entrance is on the Southwest corner of 68th St. and Lexington Ave.
Co-sponsored by The Hunter College School of Arts and Sciences and MFA Program in Creative Writing
Free
7:00–9:00
Czeslaw Milosz and the Conscience of Literature
Bei Dao, Robert Faggen, Durs Grünbein, Robert Hass, Edward Hirsch, Eva Hoffman, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Azar Nafisi, Tomas Venclova, Adam Zagajewski; moderated by Lawrence Weschler
At
the end of a week much engaged with the subject of the writer’s
struggle to assert humane values in a “Ruined World,” the first PEN
World Voices appropriately concludes with a tribute to the great Polish
Nobel laureate who died last August at the age of 93. Friends, former
colleagues, and fellow artists come together to celebrate a poet who
spoke out many times against authoritarianism, yet was diffident in his
claims for the authority of letters: “I know what was left for smaller
men like me:/ A feast of brief hopes, a rally of the proud./ A
tournament of hunchbacks, literature.” (From “A Confession,” translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass from The Collected Poems 1931–1987 by
Czeslaw Milosz. Copyright © 1988 by Czeslaw Milosz Royalties,
Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.)
Where: Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College: Entrance is on 68th Street between Park and Lexington Aves.
Ticketing: $10; free for Hunter students & faculty. For more information, please visit http://kayeplayhouse.hunter.cuny.edu/tickets.shtml or contact Kaye Playhouse.
Ave.: (212) 772-4448
This event is free for Festival Pass holders. Pass holder reservations are required. Click here to email your reservation or call (212) 334-1660, ext. 119
Co-sponsored
by The Hunter College Office of the President, School of Arts and
Sciences and MFA Program in Creative Writing; the Poetry Society of
America; the Polish Cultural Institute; the Consulate General of the
Republic of Poland; and the Consulate General of Lithuania |
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