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<title>European Voices: A Reading &amp; Conversation with Bulgarian-German Author Ilija Trojanow</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 13:12:22 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This reading and conversation with Bulgarian-German author Ilija Trojanow, moderated by editor, teacher, and translator Aaron Kerner, took place at the Boston University Castle on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The discussion centered around Ilija's latest novel, The Lamentations of Zeno (Verso Books, 2016), a literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic. 

Trojanow, born in Bulgaria in 1965 and brought up in East Africa, established his name as an international writer with the novel Der Weltensammler or The Collector of Worlds (2006), about the cross-cultural Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Since the mid-1990s Trojanow has been prolific in a number of genres, including travel, ethnography and science fiction. He has also become a major public intellectual in Austria and Germany with provocative interventions on topics such as Islam and the West, civil rights in the age of cyber-surveillance and climate change. His imaginative writing sits at the centre of a number of defining contemporary concerns, in particular the relationship between identity, language and culture.

Trojanow is the author of more than 20 books, including Angriff auf die Freiheit (Attack on Freedom), a polemic on surveillance that he co-wrote with fellow writer Juli Zeh and published in 2009. In July, he and Zeh penned an open letter calling on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to respond to the NSAâ€™s surveillance program. - See more at: http://www.pen.org/press-release/2013/11/08/third-attempt-pen-member-ilija-trojanow-permitted-us#sthash.CGMLZ0lk.dpuf

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 of 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.]]></description>
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<title>European Voices A Reading and Conversation with Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:08 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A reading and conversation with Greek writer Christos Ikonomou and translator Karen Emmerich. Ikonomou reads from and discusses his short story collection, Something Will Happen, You'll See (Polis Editions, 2010)â€”a wrenching yet optimistic elegy to Greeceâ€™s working classes. The collection was the most reviewed Greek book of 2010 and the recipient of the prestigious Best Short-Story Collection State Award. It has been translated into six languages and was published in the U.S by Archipelago in March, 2016.

Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has published two earlier collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (2003) and Something Will Happen, You'll See (2010). Described by Italyâ€™s La Repubblica as â€œthe Greek Faulkner,â€ Ikonomou writes with profound sensibility, deep humanism and astute foresight about the human condition using the Greek economic crisis as a backdrop.

Karen Emmerich's translations from the Greek include books by Margarita Karapanou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Sophia Nikolaidou, Ersi Sotiropoulos, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Her translation of Miltos Sachtouris for Archipelago was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and her translation of Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile with Edmund Keeley won the 2014 PEN Literary Award. She teaches at Princeton University.

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 of EU Futures, a series of initiatives exploring 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. Christos Ikonomou's visit was co-sponsored by the Modern Greek Program at Boston University.]]></description>
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<title>Lusophone Voices: A Reading &amp; Conversation with Jos&Atilde;&copy; Eduardo Agualusa</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 13:42:35 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with JosÃ© Eduardo Agualusa. Moderated by Linda Heywood. At the Boston University Castle. Tuesday, April 12, 2016.

JosÃ© Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha] was born 1960 in Huambo and is considered one of Angolaâ€™s most important writers. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet. His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and he recently received the U.K.'s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the U.K. for The Book of Chameleons. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages.

His most recent novel to be translated into English, A General Theory of Oblivion (from which he reads in this video) tells the story of Angola through Ludo, a woman who bricks herself into her apartment on the eve of Angolan independence. Published by Archipelago Books last year, the book was one of thirteen finalists for the Man Booker International Prize (awarded annually on the basis of the single book) and one of twenty-five finalists for the Best Translated Book Award (by Three Percent) of 2015. 

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 of 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. 

JosÃ© Eduardo Agualusa's visit was co-sponsored by the African Studies Center at Boston University and UMASS Lowell.]]></description>
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<title>The Arab World Meets Europe</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 13:14:22 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[March 2, 2016. A reading and conversation with Elias Khoury, moderated by Jocelyne Cesari. 

Khoury reads from and discusses his latest novel, Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol (Archipelago Books, January, 2016). The novel follows Karim, a Lebanese doctor who has escaped the civil war by emigrating to France, as he returns to Beirut like a â€œcriminal returns to the scene of his crime.â€

Presented by the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. Co-sponsored by Institute for Iraqi Studies, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, the Middle East and North African Studies Program, and the literary journal AGNI. Free and open to the public. Supported in part by a Getting to Know Europe grant from the European Commission Delegation.]]></description>
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<title>European Voices: A Reading &amp; Conversation with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 13:26:57 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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), Rozaâ€™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.]]></description>
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<title>European Voices in Translation: L&Atilde;&iexcl;szl&Atilde;&sup3; Krasznahorkai and George Szirtes (with James Wood)</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:54:48 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LÃ¡szlÃ³ Krasznahorkai and George Szirtes in conversation with James Wood. European Voices in Translation Festival at Goethe-Institut Boston on May 10th, 2014. Sponsored by Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe, AGNI, and the Goethe-Institut, with thanks to the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC.]]></description>
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<title>European Voices in Translation: Veronika Tuckerova reads her translations of Ivan Blatn&Atilde;&frac12;</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:41:30 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A reading of selected poems by Ivan BlatnÃ½ in English translation by Veronika Tuckerova. European Voices in Translation Festival at Goethe-Institut Boston on May 10th, 2014. Sponsored by Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe, AGNI, and the Goethe-Institut, with thanks to the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC.]]></description>
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<title>European Voices in Translation: Stacey Knecht reads from her translation of Harlequin&acirc;&euro;&trade;s Millions</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:39:24 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Reading from Bohumil Hrabalâ€™s â€œHarlequinâ€™s Millionsâ€ in English translation by Stacey Knecht (Archipelago Books, May 2014). European Voices in Translation Festival at Goethe-Institut Boston on May 10th, 2014. Sponsored by Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe, AGNI, and the Goethe-Institut, with thanks to the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC.

[Apologies for low-volume on this video - please listen with headphones to enjoy!]]]></description>
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<title>European Voices in Translation: Semezdin Mehmedinovic and Ammiel Alcalay (with Ainsley Morse)</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:30:33 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Reading and Conversation with Semezdin Mehmedinovic and Ammiel Alcalay. Moderated by Ainsley Morse. European Voices in Translation Festival at Goethe-Institut Boston on May 10th, 2014. Sponsored by Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe, AGNI, and the Goethe-Institut, with thanks to the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC.]]></description>
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<title>European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Polish author Gra&Aring;&frac14;yna Plebanek</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:37:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A reading and conversation with Polish author GraÅ¼yna Plebanek and a celebration of the publication by New Europe Books of Illegal Liasons (Nielegalne zwiÄ…zki, 2010).

A passionate novel of unstoppable physical obsession amongst a group of Brussels eurocrats, Illegal Liaisons offers a fascinating insight into the first Polish generation that is truly 'free', but struggle to know where the boundaries of that freedom lie.--Stork Press
Aspiring writer Jonathan puts his career on hold to follow his wife to Brussels, but finds himself drawn into an affair with the beautiful yet elusive Andrea. What follows is a tormenting battle between conscience and desire. Complex and compelling, Illegal Liaisons is a penetrating work of erotic imagination and a chilling portrait of the nature of love.--New Europe Books
A literary sensation in Poland, it is Plebanek's first novel to be translated into English.

Co-sponsored by the literary journal AGNI. Funded in part by the European Commission Delegation in Washington DC.
November 6, 2013]]></description>
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