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April 29 | The Great Hall at Cooper Union | NYC
With Muriel Barbery, Nicole Brossard, Narcís Comadira, Jose Dalisay, Edwidge Danticat, Péter Nádas, Sergio Ramírez, Salman Rushdie, and Raja Shehadeh
The PEN World Voices Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary. An extraordinary group of internationally acclaimed writers comes to the stage for an unforgettable night of readings from around the globe. Writers read in their original languages as the English text is projected on screens behind them. Don't miss the best literary voices from East and West.
 PHOTO GALLERY
• View the photo gallery on Flickr
 LISTEN
• Entire event
• Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Raja Shehadeh reads from Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
• Nicole Brossard reads from Fences in Breathing
• Jose Dalisay reads from Soledad's Sister
• Muriel Barbery reads from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
• Sergio Ramírez reads from A Thousand Deaths Plus One
• Péter Nádas reads "The Great Christmas Killing" from Fire and Knowledge
• Edwidge Danticat reads poems "Tourist" and "Boat People" by Felix Morisseau-Leroy
• Salman Rushdie reads from Shalimar the Clown
 VIDEO
• Evolution/Revolution
• Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Raja Shehadeh reads from Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
• Nicole Brossard reads from Fences in Breathing
• Jose Dalisay reads from Soledad's Sister
• Sergio Ramirez reads from A Thousand Deaths Plus One
• Narcís Comadira reads "Triumph of Life"
• Salman Rushdie reads from Shalimar the Clown
PEN Blogs
• Jane Ciabattari:
New PEN American Center President Kwame Anthony Appiah greeted the crowd at Cooper Union with the Cabaret lyrics, "Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome," and added a salutation in his Ghanian father's language. [More]
• Elise Blackwell:
The nearly full Great Hall at Cooper Union was the site for beautiful readings. . . [More]
• Michael Kelleher:
Poets are an often marginalized tribe. Not very many people read poetry anymore, despite the fact that everyone seems to be writing it. [More]
• Shaun Randol:
What a treat! Tonight Cooper Union was a fully loaded shotgun of global literary voices. [More]
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