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Reading the World: Ledig House, 2011
October, 25 2011 - Ledig House is home to one of the nation's only international writers' residencies. Every year, two dozen critically acclaimed writers and translators from around the world visit the Ledig House, where they work on their individual projects and learn from their fellow writers. And for the past three years, we've been privileged to have some of their residents visit Rochester and read from their work.
This year's event includes: Mads Mygind (Denmark), author of several poetry collections and the founder of the Verbale Pupiller poetry festival; Chika Unigwe (Nigeria/Belgium), a former Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and author of "On Black Sisters Street"; and Anna Mioni (Italy), translator of more than fifty novels and works of non-ficiton.
(This event is presented by Open Letter and University of Rochester Arts & Sciences. It is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.)
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Reading the World: Charlotte Mandell
As part of the on-going Reading the World Conversation Series. Charlotte Mandell--the French translator of Balzac, Proust, Flaubert, and others--reads from her new translation of Mathias Énard's ZONE (forthcoming from Open Letter). Then, joined by E.J. Van Lanen--Editor at Open Letter--she talks and takes questions about literary translation.
ZONE has already been called "The novel of the decade, if not of the century (Christophe Claro). In short, it is a 517-page, one-sentence novel about a spy, a train ride, a briefcase, and the pervasive violence of the twentieth century.
Charlotte Mandell is one of the great French-to-English translators, and has translated such prominent works as:
-The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac
-The Book to Come by Maurice Blanchot
-A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
-The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
-Listening by Jean-Luc Nancy
-The Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust
(This event is hosted by Open Letter and University of Rochester Arts & Sciences. It is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.)
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Reading the World: Jorge Volpi & Alfred Mac Adam
On October 7, 2008, as part of the ongoing Reading the World Conversation Series, Jorge Volpi—author of international bestseller IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR, and a founder of the Crack group—reads from his latest novel, SEASON OF ASH, and discusses the new generation of Mexican writers.
Jorge Volp's newest international bestseller SEASON OF ASH puts a human face on the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century: the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Soviet communism and the rise of the Russian oligarchs, the cascading collapse of developing economies, and the near-miraculous scientific advances of the Human Genome Project. Praised throughout the world for his inventive story telling and stylistic ambition, Jorge Volpi has become one of the leading innovators of twenty-first-century world literature.
After reading from SEASON OF ASH, Volpi is joined in conversation by Alfred Mac Adam—professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College-Columbia University since 1983 and translator of novels by Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Julio Cortázar, as well as SEASON OF ASH.
(This event is hosted by Open Letter and University of Rochester Arts & Sciences. It is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.)
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Reading the World: Jan Kjaerstad & Mark Binelli
s part of the Reading the World Conversation Series (at the University of Rochester), this event on April 30, 2009, brought together Jan Kjærstad & Mark Binelli.
The "Jonas Wergland Trilogy" propelled author Jan Kjærstad to fame in his native Norway (and throughout Europe). This trilogy—including THE CONQUEROR and THE DISCOVERER, both published by Open Letter—presents three different viewpoints on the rise and fall of a TV producer named Jonas Wergeland (think Ken Burns meets Terry Gross) and three different explanations for his wife's mysterious death. These books are absolute masterpieces of storytelling that—rather than answering "who did it?"—address the more salient question of "how did he become the person who did it?"
Jan Kjærstad is joined on stage by the incredibly talented Mark Binelli, who is the author of SACCO & VANZETTI MUST DIE! (a novel that ingeniously re-imagines two infamous anarchists as slapstick comedians). He is also a contributing editor to ROLLING STONE, writing on topics ranging from the glacial melting on Greenland to "Kid Cannabis" to, most recently, the fall of Detroit.
Sponsored by Open Letter Books the Humanities Project at the University of Rochester.
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