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Lunchtime Literary Conversations: Amélie Northomb and Buket Uzuner
With Amélie Nothomb and Buket Uzuner; moderated by Kira Brunner Don.Since her debut on the French literary scene more than a decade ago, Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb has published… More
In Conversation: Vladimir Sorokin and Keith Gessen
Vladimir Sorokin, considered by many to be the next Roberto Bolaño, is one of Russia's most accomplished and well-regarded novelists and dramatists. English translations of his masterpieces, Ice Trilogy… More
Lunchtime Literary Conversations: Laurence Cossé and Hervé Le Tellier
April 27, 2011 | La Maison Française | New York CityWith Laurence Cossé and Hervé Le Tellier; moderated by Rakesh SatyalCo-sponsored by La Maison FrançaiseListen in on a tête-à-tête… More
PEN World Voices Opening Night
With Mohsin Hamid, Yiyun Li, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, Sofi Oksanen, Atiq Rahimi, Salman Rushdie, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Patti Smith, Andrzej Stasiuk,and Miguel Syjuco.Co-sponsored by 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center and… More
On Translating Hervé Guibert
Le mausolée des amants makes every essential demand upon me; the sensual exigencies, and cruel untempered forms of address in this epistolary work...mark the rest of us as gilt… More
On Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago
Even under Stalin’s successor Khrushchev there was still no realistic hope of publishing the entire book. So in 1957 Pasternak finally allowed a manuscript (including the poems, published as… More
On Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs del Mal
The judges argued that these pieces would “necessarily lead to the excitement of the senses by a crude realism offensive to public decency.” In other words, they were too… More
Announcing the 2012 PEN Literary Awards Recipients
We are pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2012 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the country. More
Translating Pussy Riot
Susan Bernofsky reports on how the closing statements by members of Russian punk band Pussy riot made it into English. More
On Translating Andrea Tompa
Andrea Tompa's generation had no sultan to fear in distant Constantinople and his pashas, but they did have a Moscow-driven communist dictator and his secret police. No hostile armies… More
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