PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
Cooper Union (7 E 7th Street)
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PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: A week-long celebration of world literature, featuring 160 writers, from 41 countries, speaking 18 different languages, exploring the theme of Evolution/Revolution. Don't miss this exciting cross-cultural literary exchange including conversations, panel discussions, readings, film screenings, a translation slam and a cabaret night! New York City, April 27-May 3, 2009.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
8-9:30 p.m. Evolution/Revolution
Participants: Muriel Barbery, Narcis Comadira, Jose Dalisay, Edwidge Danticat, Péter Nádas, Sergio Ramírez, Charlotte Roche, Salman Rushdie, and Raja Shehadeh.
Join us to celebrate the fifth annual PEN World Voices Festival. An extraordinary group of internationally acclaimed writers will come to the stage for an unforgettable night of readings from around the globe. Writers will read in their original languages as the English text is projected on screens behind them. Don't miss the best literary voices from East and West.
Tickets: $20/$15 www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444. Cosponsored by Cooper Union
Saturday, May 2, 2009
1-2:00 p.m. Coraline, Sandman — Books and Imagination —
A Conversation with Neil Gaiman
Internationally celebrated author Neil Gaiman has written across a variety of literary fields, including short stories, novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. He is the creator of the enormously popular Sandman series of graphic novels, and Coraline, which was recently adapted to the big screen. Join Gaiman for a discussion of imagination, inspiration, and creativity across a dizzying range of genres with World Voices Festival Director Caro Llewellyn.
Tickets: $10/$8 PEN members. Purchase tickets for all three Cooper Union sessions on Saturday for $25/$20, www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444. Cosponsored by Cooper Union.
2:30-4 p.m. 1,000 Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling
Participants: Emmanuel Guibert, David Polonsky, and Shaun Tan. Moderated by Jonathan Ames.
What can pictures provide that words cannot? Our panelists have all used pictures to tell challenging and compelling stories: Shaun Tan, from Australia, has imagined the experience of immigration in his wordless book The Arrival; Jonathan Ames, from the United States, has depicted the life of a failing writer in The Alcoholic; David Polonsky, from Israel, illustrated the horrors of the Israeli Lebanon war in Waltz with Bashir; and Emmanuel Guibert, from France, has documented war in Afghanistan and in Europe in his graphic novels.
Tickets: $10/$8 PEN Members Purchase tickets for all three Cooper Union sessions on Saturday for $25/$20 www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444. Cosponsored by Cooper Union.
4:30-5:30 p.m. Yoshihiro Tatsumi in Conversation with Adrian Tomine
Over 40 years ago Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons for storytelling in comics by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people. Adrian Tomine, who has helped bring Tatsumi's work to American readers-and whose graphic novel Shortcomings was hailed as "pitch-perfect" and "daring" in The New York Times-will speak with Tatsumi about the evolution of comics in Japan, the U.S., and around the world.
Tickets: $10/$8 PEN members. Purchase tickets for all three Cooper Union sessions on Saturday for $25/$20 www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444. Cosponsored by Words Without Borders, Japan Foundation New York, and Cooper Union.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
6:30-8 p.m. The Fourth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
by Nawal El Saadawi
The fourth annual PEN World Voices Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture will be presented by Egyptian novelist, psychiatrist, and activist Nawal El Saadawi. For more than 50 years, Dr. Saadawi has written books that focus on identity, sexuality and the legal status of women — particularly Arab women — and has continued her work despite the fact that these activities cost her her position as Egypt's Director of Public Health and led to imprisonment, threats to her life, and, ultimately, exile. One of the leading literary, cultural, and political voices of our times, Saadawi once noted, "Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies." It is PEN's great honor to welcome Dr. Saadawi to deliver this lecture. PEN President and acclaimed author K. Anthony Appiah will join Dr. Saadawi on stage after her lecture for a far-reaching conversation about her life and work.
Tickets: $15/$10 PEN members. Purchase tickets for all three Cooper Union sessions on Saturday for $25/$20, www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444. Cosponsored by Cooper Union.
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from April 27, 2009 to May 03, 2009