March 2012
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"Romanian Writers on Writing" - A Celebration
With Norman Manea, Nina Cassian, Dan Lungu, Simona Popescu, Lucian Dan Teodorovici, Carmen Firan and Bogdan Suceavă.
Free admission
THU, March 22, 6.30pm RCINY Auditorium 200 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
- Hosted by acclaimed author Norman Manea, the editor of the anthology, and RCINY Director Corina Şuteu, with an introduction by Edward Hirsch, poet and J.S.Guggenheim Memorial...
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WatchFrom Yamina Benguigui’s documentary ”Memoires d’immigres.” A portion of the documentary was adapted into the graphic novel Les Mohameds by Jérôme Ruillier. An excerpt of Les Mohameds, translated by Edward Gauvin, was published in the February 2012 issue of Words without Borders.
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Pantheon of Dissent
lareviewofbooks:
GORDON FELLMAN on Liu Xiaobo’s No Enemies, No Hatred. Liu Xiaobo No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems Translated by Wenguang Huang Harvard University Press, January 2012. 400 pp. The 20th century was marked by near-absolute totalitarian political systems in massive industrial societies. It was also a time for dissidents to rise and broadcast their dissent to...
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“My dad’s ideas were not so different from Ionesco’s. Carried away by his...”
– —from “The Way to Juarez” by Rafael Pérez Gay, translated by Catherine Mansfield
“In Mexico, people will pay up to $70,000 dollars for a license to hunt and kill...”
– by Juan Villoro, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Read more in the March 2012 issue of Words without Borders.
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