A New Literature from Europe Festival event! Readings by Philippe Claudel (France), Kirmen Uribe (Spain), Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), Gerhard Roth (Austria), Radka Denemarková (Czech Republic), Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Gabriela Adameşteanu (Romania), and Antonia Arslan (Italy).

Bios:
Philippe Claudel is the author of By a slow river (Les Âmes Grises), which won the Renaudot
prize in France and Brodeck which won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2007. He is also the
writer and director of the movie I’ve Loved You So Long starring Kristin Scott Thomas

Kirmen Uribe is considered one of the most outstanding renovators of present literature, delving into the waters of autofiction with a rich style that is complex and evocative. His novel, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, has received Spain’s National Prize of Literature 2009, the Critic’s Prize 2008 in Basque language, the Ramón Rubial Foundation Prize and the Booksellers Guild of Euskadi Prize.

Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of stories, novels and plays, which have been translated worldwide, and her literary honors include the Ingeborg Bachmann Jury Prize, and the Heimito von Doderer Prize. She has worked on opera and musical productions since 1991.

Gerhard Roth’s first novel was published in 1972 and he’s gone onto write 14 more novels along with plays, a children’s book, and several books of essays. The destructive forces of National Socialism and Austria’s relationship with its past and its present constitute the central theme of one of his latest book translated in English, The Story of Darkness.

Radka Denemarková has worked as a researcher, lecturer, and theatrical advisor, and has published numerous translations from German. Her latest novel, Money from Hitler received the Czech Republic’s prestigious Magnesia Litera award for Czech Literature in 2007. In sparkling, imaginative prose, celebrated Czech writer Radka Denemarková depicts a world of absurdity and darkness. It is now being made into a feature film.

Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s most accomplished contemporary novelists. Her work is widely translated in Europe, and her novel, Runners, won the 2008 Nike Prize for Best Book.

Gabriela Adameşteanu is one of Romanian’s outstanding writers and political journalists. Her novel Wasted Morning was a landmark of dissident writing during the communist years. She is the recipient of numerous awards in Romania and internationally, including a 2002 Hellman Hammett Grant by Human Rights Watch and the Romanian Writer’s Union’s 1984 Annual Prize.

Antonia Arslan is an Italian writer and a professor of modern and contemporary literature at theUniversity of Padova. Her writing centers around the Armenian genocide and the survivors who live in Italy.

NLE Partner institutions: Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the Goethe-Institut New York, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Instituto Cervantes New York, The Czech Center New York, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Romanian Cultural Institute, and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York. Within the framework of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture)

NLE Partners: Words without Borders, The Brooklyn Rail