PEN World Voices

When:
May 3, 2012 all-day

12:30 p.m.
Lunchtime Literary Conversations: Noëlle Revaz

With Noëlle Revaz; interviewed by Lisa Dierbeck [event details]

1 p.m.
Fame and the Writer

With Daniel Kehlmann, and others [event details]

2:30 p.m.
Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics

With Gabriel Adamesteanu, Giannina Braschi, Ib Michael, and Laurie Sheck; moderated by John Brenkman [event details]

3 p.m.
Herta Müller on Silence

With Herta Müller [event details]

4 p.m.
Translating Poets Alive

With Yousef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Tracy K. Smith, and Anne Waldman, with their translators, MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish students Valerie Mejer,Claudira Mora, Edgardo Núñez Caballero, Florencia San Martín, and Kadiri Vaquer [event details]

4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis andPoulet aux Prunes (Chicken with Plums)

With Marjane Satrapi [event details]
6 p.m.
Dialogue Series: Margaret Atwood on the Writers’ Mind and the Digital OtherworldWith Margaret Atwood and Amy Grace Loyd [event details]

6 p.m.
The New Censorship

With Giannina Braschi, Jaume Cabré, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Karl O. Knausgaard, and Adam Mansbach; moderated by Albert Mobilio [event details]

6 p.m.
Reviewing Translations

With Arne Bellstorf, Ruth Franklin, Julya Rabinowich, and Lorin Stein; moderated by Eric Banks and Susan Bernofsky [event details]

7 p.m.
Conversation: Hugo Hamilton and Fernando Savater

With Hugo Hamilton and Fernando Savater [event details]

7:30 p.m.
Elevator Repair Service with Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin

With Elevator Repair Service, Mark Hansen, and Ben Rubin [event details]

8 p.m.
Translation Slam

With Laurie Sheck, Román Antopolsky, Mariela B. Dreyfus, Naief Yehya, Rosalie Knecht, and Michelle Gil-Montero; hosted by Michael F. Moore [event details]

8 p.m.
Understanding Egypt

With Mona Eltahawy, Elias Khoury, and Rula Jebreal [event details]