by Alison Anderson
I’ve never been good at math, or maybe I should say, I never liked math enough to be good at it, even if I did get the odd A in the subject in high school. So I don’t have a clue how to divide 3% by 26%, for example. I searched on the Internet, and found calculators that were very handy for…
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by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. With more than two dozen events throughout Manhattan, it focuses on the brief but prolific period (1929-1930), during which Lorca came…
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by Susan Harris
This month’s North Korean defectors join the numerous WWB contributors writing in exile. Most of April's Iraqi writers, many of November's banned Chinese writers, virtually all of our July and August 2011 Arab Spring authors, and many others write from countries not their own. Some are…
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by Liel Leibovitz
The decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict has yielded many harrowing developments, but none, arguably, more absurd than the un-improvable bit of legal coinage that deemed a portion of Israel’s Palestinian residents as present absentees. The term applies to tens of thousands of…
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by Andrew Seguin
To celebrate the publication of Bones Will Crow, an anthology of Burmese poetry, poets Zeyar Lynn, Khin Aung Aye and James Byrne joined Philip Howze for a conversation and reading at The Public Theater on May 5. Mr. Lynn and Mr. Aung Aye began by reading from their work in Burmese and English (Mr. Byrne…
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by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. With more than two dozen events throughout Manhattan, it focuses on the brief but prolific period (1929-1930), during which Lorca came…
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by Elisa Wouk Almino
The Translation Slam has become a popular tradition in the PEN World Voices Festival, and this year’s event saw a full house at The Public Theater on Friday evening. For years it was held at the Bowery Poetry Club, which lamentably closed this past week. Host Michael F. Moore was clearly dismayed…
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by Seth Satterlee
Siphiwo Mahala set the stage for this engaging discussion of South African literature and media at the Cooper Union on Saturday with an opening brief on the political state of the country, focusing on freedom of speech rights. The looming issue is a bill, already passed by both chambers of Congress,…
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by Geoff Wisner
When an earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, among the 300,000 killed were Georges Anglade, the president of PEN Haiti, and his wife Mireille Neptune. Today novelist Jean-Euphèle Milcé and poet and novelist Emmélie Prophète, his wife, serve as president and vice president.…
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by Bud Parr
"I learned the art of writing and the art of storytelling in the cafés of Montevideo," said the great and loved Eduardo Galeano during his hour-long conversation with Jessica Hagedorn Saturday night. It was as though all 500 of us at the filled-to-capacity auditorium at the New School were transported…
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Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. With more than two dozen events throughout Manhattan, it focuses on the brief but prolific period (1929-1930), during which Lorca came to New York and wrote one of his most significant works, Poet in New York.
what: To an Unknown God (1977). Directed by Jaime Chávarri.
Circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Lorca emerge in counterpoint with the current life of a homosexual stage-magician. The film was the Grand Prize winner at the Chicago International Film Festival, and Hector Alterio won the Best actor award at the San Sebastian Film Festival for his performance as José. In Spanish
when: Wednesday, May 22 , 7 p.m.
where: Instituto Cervantes
more info: http://ow.ly/kwL1W
what: Poeta en Nueva York (Book launch)
British hispanist Andrew A. Anderson presents a new critical edition of the Spanish edition of Poeta en Nueva York (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, Círculo de Lectores, 2013). In Spanish.
when: Friday, May 24, 7 p.m.
where: Instituto Cervantes
more info: http://ow.ly/kwL1W
what: 2013 Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators Awards Ceremony. This year's winner, Alta Price, will receive an award of $2,500 and present her translation at the prize ceremony
when: Thursday, June 6
where: Goethe-Institut, New York
more info: http://ow.ly/lcLCb
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what: British Centre for Literary Translation 2013 Summer School
when: July 21-July 27
where: University of East Anglia, Norwich
application deadline: May 24, 2013
more info: http://ow.ly/lcLK4
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