Free public reading commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the of the Berlin Wall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Information
Contact: W. Brandon Lacy Campos, Development and Marketing Manager
Organization Name: Words without Borders
Telephone Number: 646-460-0551
Email Address: brandon@wordswithoutborders.org
Website Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org
Words without Borders hosts free public reading commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
New York City, New York, 19 October 2009—Words without Borders (WWB) magazine announces a free reading at Idlewild Bookstore featuring post-communist European authors from our new anthology, The Wall in My Head, and from our November magazine issue focused on contemporary writings from Germany.
WWB, in partnership with Open Letter Books, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, the Romanian Culutral Institute New York, the German Book Office, the Goethe-Institut New York and Idlewild Books, presents an evening of readings by authors from Poland, Romania, Russia, and Germany moderated by Eliot Borenstein, chair of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University.
The event features readings from their own works by German writer, documentarian, and best selling author Kathrin Aenlich; Polish prize winning author and acclaimed playwright Dorota Maslowska; young acclaimed Romanian poet and novelist Dan Sociu, and Russian author and journalist Masha Gessen, an acclaimed writer forced to flee Russia in 1981 due to state sponsored anti-Semitism.
The event is free and open to the public. It takes place on November 10, 2009 at 7 p.m. at Idlewild Books, 12 W. 19th Street in New York City.
For additional information, please contact:
W. Brandon Lacy Campos, Development and Marketing Manager
Organization Name: Words without Borders
Telephone Number: 646-460-0551
Email Address: brandon@wordswithoutborders.org
Website Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org
Founded in 2003, Words without Borders is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that has translated over 1,100 pieces of literature and poetry from , representing 80 languages by writers fromfrom 111 countries. WWB has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, Time Magazine, The Guardian (UK), Vanity Fair, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as in various foreign- language papers and numerous literary blogs. We were selected as a featured “pick” by Yahoo immediately after our launch issue and voted one of Time magazine’s “Fifty Coolest Websites” in July 2004.
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