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Featured Audio and Articles
TWO VOICES: Novelist Sergio ChejfecScott Esposito, May 10, 2012 12:54:00 PM
In his Two Voices presentation on May 8, lauded Argentine author Sergio Chejfec started by explaining the biographical roots of his strange, compelling novel The Planets. The book is about an Argentine who goes missing during the military dictatorship of 1976-82, and Chejfec began by explaining that the plot of the book actually has to do with a friend of his who did disappear during the military dictatorship for the 1970s. He was one of an estimated 30,000 Argentines to disappear during that span.
June 12: A Night of Fairy TalesScott Esposito, May 14, 2012 11:57:00 AM
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join us for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tartar take you deep into the dark woods with readings from classic and contemporary fairytales. And these aren't the fairytales you grew up with—they're the darkest, scariest tales you've ever heard! A reception with cash bar will follow the event.
If you can make it, definitely plan to drop by. This event is super affordable, and promises to be a memorable experience!
TWO VOICES: Stephen Snyder on Yoko Ogawa, Haruki Murakami, and the Business of International LiteratureScott Esposito, May 12, 2011 11:39:00 AM
Early in this Two Voices event, translator Stephen Snyder made a bold pronouncement: Haruki Murakami would win a Nobel prize, and 1Q84, his blockbuster novel that many are comparing to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, would be the book to do it. Snyder wasn't wholly going out on a limb. As he told the audience, he correctly predicted Kenzaburo Oe's Nobel prize in 1994. But more to the point of his presentation, Snyder has seen the intricacies of the publishing industry close up, and he has a strong sense of how tastes are made with regard to inernational authors.
Upcoming Events
Lit&Lunch: How to Translate Fairy Tales, with Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tatar
June 12, 2012
Contributors and the editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, an anthology of fairy tales, discuss the unique craft of translating myth and the history of fairy tales.
A Night of Fairy Tales
June 12, 2012
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join the staff and friends of the Center for the Art of Translation for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Audio Entries
TWO VOICES: Bernardo Atxaga, Leading Basque Novelist
Posted on June 08, 2010 by Scott EspositoA copy of this podcast can be downloaded here. You can also subscribe to all of the Center's audio on iTunes, or in RSS.
As London's newspaper The Guardian once wrote, Bernardo Atxaga is not just a Basque novelist but the Basque novelist: a writer charged, whether he likes it or not, with exporting a threatened culture around the world. If Basque culture is threatened, its literature is perhaps most imperiled of all: Atxaga himself claims that just one hundred books have been written in the Basque language Euskara in the past 400 years.
At Lit&Lunch Atxaga shared his experiences writing in Euskara, as well as something of the culture he's so ably exported around the world. Atxaga read from his poetry in Basque, and Karl Pribram provided vivid readings of excerpts Atxaga chose from two of his major novels, Obabakoak (winner of Spain's National Literature Prize in 1989) and The Accordionist's Son (Atxaga's most recent work).