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If you are in NY and can make any of these events I'd encourage you to do so.
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
"Public Lives/Private Lives"
New York, April 29-May 4, 2008
http://www.pen.org/festival
Highlights: Africa-related events
TUESDAY, APRIL 29
8:00 p.m. Crisis Darfur: A Conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy
French Institute Alliance Française, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street
Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics hosts a discussion on Darfur, with actress and activist Mia Farrow, and acclaimed public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy. This special event explores why the atrocities in Darfur continue, and what role artists, intellectuals, and other witnesses can play to end a genocide that refuses to go away. Ms. Farrow and Mr. Lévy will each speak of their visits to the war-torn region and their urgent work to end the genocide—ongoing since 2003—by leveraging governments and international bodies, and mobilizing public opinion. Their speeches will be followed by a discussion on what more must be done to definitively end the killing.
Tickets: $15/$10 FIAF/PEN Members/students
www.Ticketmaster.com or 212.307.4100
Cosponsored by Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics (www.GuernicaMag.com) and by the French
Institute Alliance Française
THURSDAY, MAY 1
1–2:30 p.m. Writing Genocide
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
Participants: Lieve Joris and Christian Jungersen.
Lieve Joris has seen genocide firsthand and her nonfiction book, The Rebels' Hour, bear witness to mass killings in Africa. Novelist Christian Jungersen did extensive research on real-life atrocities and used it for his latest novel, The Exception. Join them for a discussion about the light shed by literature on humanity's dark side.
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY and the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy
THURSDAY, MAY 1
7 p.m. Writing Place, Finding Refuge
Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza
Participants: Fatou Diome, Nuruddin Farah, Xioalu Guo, and Etgar Keret. Moderated by Rick Moody.
Best-selling novelist Rick Moody will guide the discussion among Fatou Diome, Nuruddin Farah, Xioalu Guo, and Etgar Keret about the settings for their novels and short stories, the place they call home, and where they find refuge. Introduced by BOMB's Betsy Sussler.
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Copresented by BOMB and the Brooklyn Public Library
FRIDAY, MAY 2
3:30–5:00 p.m. Crossing Borders
Instituto Cervantes New York, 211–215 East 49th Street
Participants Ana Castillo, Daniel Kehlmann, Lieve Joris, and Gonçalo M. Tavares. Moderated by Lila
Azam Zanganeh.
A discussion about boundaries—both physical and psychological—and a journey across borders into the cartography of many different lands, with Daniel Kehlmann (whose Measuring the World is the best-selling novel in German since Patrick Süskind's Perfume), Lieve Joris (one of Europe's leading travel writers, who has written widely of her journeys in the Middle East and Africa), Ana Castillo (whose novel The Guardians explores Southwestern American border life), and Gonçalo M. Tavares (one of Portugal's leading writers, who also teaches the theory of knowledge at the University of Lisbon). They'll be joined by Le Monde's Lila Azam Zanganeh.
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Cosponsored by Instituto Cervantes and the Consulate General of Spain
FRIDAY, MAY 2
5:30–6:30 p.m. Leaving Home
Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street
Participants: Dinaw Mengestu, György Dragomán, and Sasa Stanisic. Moderated by Irina Reyn.
Guernica, a magazine of art and politics, hosts a panel with debut novelists Dinaw Mengestu, György Dragomán, and Sasˇa Stanisˇic, whose narrators recount escaping violence in their home countries only to be fraught with feelings of ambivalence in their adopted countries. Moderated by Irina Reyn, whose debut novel, What Happened to Anna K., will be published in August, the panel will explore a range of topics, including children as witnesses, the status of exile, and the role of fiction as a voice for multiculturalism.
Free and open to the public. However, reservations are required.
Please call ACF's reservation line at (212) 319 5300 ext. 222 or email reservations@acfny.org.
Cosponsored by Guernica and the Austrian Cultural Forum
SATURDAY, MAY 3
1:30–2:30 p.m. Memoir and Reportage: An African Perspective
French Institute Alliance Française, Tinker Auditorium, 55 East 59th Street
Participants: Rian Malan and Alexandra Fuller in conversation with Vanity Fair's Anderson Tepper.
Rian Malan's 1990 testimonial, My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, Tribe, and His Conscience, was an instant classic: a book that captured the national bloodlust and hysteria—and Malan's own troubled soul-searching—in the final, violent days of apartheid. Alexandra Fuller's 2001 memoir, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, was groundbreaking in its own right: a relentless, wide-eyed account of Fuller's childhood in 1970s Rhodesia, as both the country—and her family—were threatening to collapse. Join us for a conversation with two of southern Africa's most original voices as they discuss the mix of memoir and reportage, personal and public history that has fueled their work—from the fall of apartheid and Zimbabwe's war of liberation, to the eras of Mandela, Mbeki, and Mugabe.
$12 Non-Members/$8 FIAF/PEN Members/students
www.Ticketmaster.com or 212.307.4100
Cosponsored by the French Institute Alliance Française
SATURDAY, MAY 3
3–4:30 p.m. African Wars
French Institute Alliance Française, Tinker Auditorium, 55 East 59th Street
Participants: Nuruddin Farah, Chenjerai Hove, and Abdourahman Waberi. Moderated by Violaine Huisman.
A conversation among three of today's most internationally acclaimed African writers. Somali Nuruddin Farah, whom the New York Review of Books has hailed as "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction," is the author of, among many other works, the novel trilogies Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship and Blood in the Sun. Chenjerai Hove of Zimbabwe, a fierce critic of the Mugabe government, is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose works include Ancestors and Guardians of the Soil. Abdourahman Waberi, of Djibouti, a political novelist and Farah disciple, is the author of Harvest of Skulls, a fictional revisitation of the Rwandan genocide. All three writers have been forced into exile for their activism, and all have turned the tongue of their former oppressors into pacifistic weapons. Their practice of literature, defined by an undercurrent of political misery, transcends national borders.
$12 Non-Members/$8 FIAF/PEN Members/students
www.Ticketmaster.com or 212.307.4100
SATURDAY, MAY 3
5–6 p.m. Writing Out Loud: The Importance of Storytelling in Growing up a Writer
French Institute Alliance Française, Le Skyroom, 22 East 60th Street
Participants: Pam Muñoz Ryan and Fatou Diome. Moderated by Ben Schrank.
How does one come to literature? What shapes creative ambition? Is the urge to write cultivated through hearing stories as a child, reading books as an adolescent, or perhaps by some other, nameless force?
$12 Non-Members/$8 FIAF/PEN Members/students
www.Ticketmaster.com or 212.307.4100
Copresented by the French Institute Alliance Française
SUNDAY, MAY 4
2 p.m. Truth and Reconciliation: A National Reckoning
The New York Public Library Celeste Bartos Forum, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
Participants: Rian Malan, Lieve Joris, Alexandra Fuller, and Francisco Goldman.
Moderated by Paul van Zyl
In countries riven by war and genocidal violence—from South Africa and Zimbabwe, to the Congo, Humanities and Rwanda and Guatemala—what, exactly, are the possibilities for truth and reconciliation? Moderated by Paul van Zyl, Executive Secretary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa from 1995 to 1998, and is now Vice President and Program Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice.
$15/$10 PEN Members, library donors, seniors, and students with valid identification
www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444
Cosponsored by LIVE from the NYPL (www.nypl.org/live) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Cosponsored by the French Institute Alliance Française
PEN World Voices is a festival of international literature featuring 170 writers, 51 countries, and 82 events coming to venues across New York City, April 29-May 4th, 2008. Don't miss six days of exciting literary exchange with conversations, panel discussions, readings, film screenings, a translation slam and a cabaret night! To view a complete schedule of events, go to: <http://www.pen.org/festival>
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