European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki

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European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki and Julia Sherwood. Moderated by Alissa Valles. At the Goethe-Institut Boston. Thursday, March 31, 2016.

Klimko-Dobrzaniecki is a novelist and poet who has lived outside [...]Poland for many years (formerly in Iceland, and now in Austria). He is author of Bielawa West Station (2003), Roza’s House. Krysuvik (2006), The Lunatic (2007); the novella Lullaby for a Hanged Man (2007); the novels One Two Three (2007), First Things (2009) and Bornholm, Bornholm (2011); and two volumes of poetry written in Icelandic.

Julia Sherwood was born and grew up in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia. After working for Amnesty International for over 20 years and travelling widely in Eastern and Central Europe, she became a freelance translator in 2008. Based in London, she is editor-at-large with Asymptote, the international journal of translation.

This year's European Voices events are organized in collaboration with the literary journal AGNI and the Goethe-Institut Boston and are taking place as part a larger project entitled EU Futures, the aim of which is to explore the emerging future in Europe. The EU Futures project is supported by a Getting to Know Europe Grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC to the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. This event received additional support from the Polish Cultural Institute.
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