When: Sunday, April 29
Where: Instituto Cervantes New York: 211–215 East 49th St.
What time: 2–3:30 p.m.
With Imma Monsó, Zafer Şenocak, Adriaan van Dis ; moderated by Esmeralda Santiago
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes and the Consulate General of Spain
These writers have all been set apart within their own societies by heritage, language, or culture (or by
a combination of these factors). While some have chosen, or been forced, to leave the country of their
birth, others have found that remaining is no defense against a sense of alienation or exclusion. Join
them as they discuss how feelings of exile have shaped their lives and their writing. Zafer Şenocak was
born in Turkey but now lives in Germany, where he writes in both German and Turkish about the Turkish
diaspora. Imma Monsó writes in Catalan in a country of Spanish speakers and in her latest short-story
collection, Better Left Unsaid, addresses the silences that isolate each of us. Adriaan van Dis’ novel
My Father’s War grapples with the legacy of Dutch colonialism and those it has left stranded between
two worlds.
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