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Petina Gappah Reads “My Cousin-Sister Rambanai”
Petina Gappah reads “My Cousin-Sister Rambanai” from her story collection An Elegy for Easterly at Readings From Around the Globe, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Per Petterson & Marilynne Robinson, with Radhika Jones
Discussed: how to write without sounding like oneself; the unknown self revealed through strangers; the imagined reader; passion and amnesia; family as a human phenomeon; and readings from Per… More
Panel Discussion: Gritty Realism
Daniel Alarcón, Guillermo Arriaga, Jorge Franco, and Patrícia Melo discuss violence in the urban environment; making creative work where there is none; political correctness as violence; magical vs. gritty… More
Bernard Comment Reads “Among the Generals” by Antonio Tabucchi
Bernard Comment reads, in Italian, “Among the Generals” by Antonio Tabucchi at Readings From Around the Globe, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Guillermo Arriaga & Paul Auster
Guillermo Arriaga and Paul Auster discuss screenwriting during a conversation that took place at the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
A Believer Nighttime Event: Entire
Readings and conversation with Rodrigo Fresán, Etgar Keret, Yiyun Li, Helen Oyeyemi, Matthew Ritchie, Salman Rushdie, and Dubravka Ugresic at the Believer Nighttime Event, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Mariken Jongman reads from Rits
Mariken Jongman reads in Dutch from her debut novel for children, Rits, at Readings From Around the Globe, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Caryl Phillips & Abdulrazak Gurnah
Caryl Phillips and Abdulrazak Gurnah discuss immigration and dual identities during a conversation which took place at the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Francine Prose Reads ?Days of Illegal Detention? by Li Jianhong
Francine Prose Reads ?Days of Illegal Detention? by Li Jianhong at the 2008 event Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China: Silenced Writers Speak. More
2007 Literary Awards: Beyond Margins Awards
Francine Prose announces the winners of the Beyond Margins Awards—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ernest Hardy, Harryette Mullen, and Alberto Ríos—at the 2007 Literary Awards Ceremony. More
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