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.
Pierre JORIS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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