Pierre JORIS

1987

French

Upcoming Events

Hind SHOUFANI, the co-writer and editor of the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated short The Present, in which a Palestinian father and daughter try to cross Israeli checkpoints, speaks about the project here. On Netflix through April 2021.
Opening the new International Writers Series at Washington University in St Louis (moderator Matthias GOERITZ) is the German-Jewish poet and multimedia artist Esther DISCHEREIT. Register here for her reading on 4/14/21, 1-2pm CDT.
Damascus, Atlantis, a poetry collection by Marie SILKEBERG, translated from the Swedish by former IWP stalwart, poet Kelsi VANADA, will be appearing from Terra Nova/MIT in April 2021.
On the 2021 International Booker longlist, Can Xue's 残雪 novel I Live in the Slums , in Karen Gernant’s and Chen Zeping’s translation from the Chinese.
“Awarded every three years to a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of their work,” the 2021 PEN Career Achievement Award goes to the intrepid Pierre JORIS.