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01 Sunday - 4 pm Reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore 15 S. Dubuque
Osman Pius Conteh (novelist; Sierra Leone) & Lijia Zhang (writer, China) and Nicholas Gulig (Writers' Workshop poet)
02 Monday - 7:00 pm Reading, Shambaugh House, 430 N. Clinton St.
Students from the MFA in Translation program read their translations from the Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin and Spanish in the Paul Engle Lounge.
04 Wednesday - 8-10 pm IWP Cinematheque, E105 Adler Journalism Building
Bo Han introduces the film The Sun Also Rises (China, 2007, dir. Wen Jiang, 116 min.)
This film (in Chinese "Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi") co-written, produced and directed by Wen Jiang features several interconnected stories, displaced in time, that trace a marriage, an infidelity and a suicide, rendered in a lush and fluid visual style. Jiang, a Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Film Festival for the much-noted Devils on the Doorstep (2000), is also a well-known actor on television and cinema, , and a professor at Beijing’s Central Academy of Drama.
Han is the author of several poetry collections and he won the 1998 Li-An Liu poetry prize. His short stories have been published in a number of literary journals. Both a playwright and a stage director, he founded the Ewood Drama Studio, and he directed the 2008 Mecoon Film Festival in Shanghai. He participates in the IWP with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
03 Thursday - 5:00 pm Reading, Shambaugh House, 430 N. Clinton St.
Poet and publisher Johannes Goransson reads from his recent work
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