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Chris Albani and Kwame Dawes chat with Dion O'Reilly about KUMI: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set THE LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry. The nine poets included in this box set are: Nurain Oládèjì, Sarpong Osei Asamoah, Claudia Owusu, Nome Emeka Patrick, Qhali, Connor Cogill, Feranmi Ariyo, Dare Tunmise, and Adams Adeosun. KWAME DAWES is the author of numerous books of poetry and other works of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent poetry collection is Sturge Town which was published by Peepal Tree Press in the UK and W.W. Norton in the US. Dawes is a George W. Holmes University Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. He teaches in the Pacific MFA Program and is the series editor of the African Poetry Book Series, director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. He is a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawes is the winner of the prestigious Windham/Campbell Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2022, Kwame Dawes was awarded the Order of Distinction Commander class by the Government of Jamaica, and in 2024, he was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica.CHRIS ABANI's prose includes The Secret History of Las Vegas, Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, GraceLand, and Masters of the Board. His poetry collections include Smoking the Bible, Sanctificum, There Are No Names for Red, Feed Me the Sun, Hands Washing Water, Dog Woman, Daphne's Lot, and Kalakuta Republic. He holds a BA and MA in English, an MA in gender and culture, and a PhD in literature and creative writing. Abani is the recipient of a PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He won the prestigious 2024 UNT Rilke Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Born in Nigeria, he is currently on the board of trustees, a professor of English, and director of African Studies at Northwestern University.

New Month Greetings Glocal Citizens! The first Tuesday in November represents the official US election day. As polling evolves for higher participation and greater inclusion, most states offer early voting so millions have already cast thier votes. Throughout this year of elections across the globe, the build up to the two where I have a say, the United States and Ghana, has played a critical role in inspiring my most activist self to move the dial in different ways toward manifesting a new world. Coincidentally, this week on the podcast kicks off our Writing as Activism series in coordination with the Pa Gya! Literary Festival in Accra. Recorded live at the eighth installment of the festivaland in the days that followed, starting the panel, Writing as Activism: Ghanaian Voices and Pan-African Perspectives Across Genres, the conversation starts with a distinguished voices covering works of poetry, screenwriting, and nonfiction scholarship with: Nicole Amarteifio is an acclaimed Ghanaian-American TV/film writer, director, and producer. She successfully launched the hit web series 'An African City' - dubbed by CNN and the BBC as Africa's answer to ‘Sex and the City'. Returning Glocal Citizen, Nydia A. Swaby is a Black feminist artist, researcher and curator. Her practice engages archives, autoethnography, photography, the moving image, and the imagination to explore the gendered, diasporic and affective dimensions of Black being and becoming. In addition to curating artistic programmes, she creates visual narratives, research and performance texts. Nydia's first book, Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives, was published by Lawrence Wishart in October 2024 as part of LW's Radical Black Women book series. She is also developing an artist film, Amy and Me in the Archive, which will be screened at the forthcoming Singapore International Photography Festival 2024. And Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Kwame Dawes, author of numerous books of poetry and other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection is Sturge Town (Peepal Tree Press, UK 2023). Dawes is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University. He teaches in the Pacific MFA Program and is the Series Editor of the African Poetry Book Series, Director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. He is a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Kwame Dawes is the winner of the prestigious Windham/Campbell Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2022 Dawes was awarded the Order of Distinction Commander class by the Government of Jamaica. He is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica (2024-2027). Click through to find out more about the Pa Gya! Literary Festival and the Writer's Project Ghana (https://writersprojectghana.com/pagyafest/) and watch this and other festival panels at WPGTV (https://www.youtube.com/@wpgtv3685). Where to find Nicole? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleamarteifio/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/amerleyproductions/) On Facebook (https://web.facebook.com/nicolelovesghana/?_rdc=1&_rdr) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/AnAfricanCity) On X (https://x.com/allthingsafrica) Where to find Kwame? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwame-dawes-2a23943b/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kwame.dawes/?hl=en) On X (https://x.com/kwamedawes?lang=en) On Facebook (https://web.facebook.com/KwameDawes/?_rdc=1&_rdr) Where to find Nydia? On Glocal Citizens (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/nydia-swaby) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nydia-a-swaby-85a04132/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nydiaswaby/) On X (https://x.com/NydiaSwaby) Other topics of interest and the Essential Pan-African Activism reading list coming soon! *This audio recording has been edited for clarity from the original video recording. Special Guests: Kwame Dawes, Nicole Amarteifio, and Nydia Swaby.

Novelist, essayist and master trilogist Nuruddin Farah is one of the most important contemporary authors working today. In a writing career that spans more than five decades, Farah has published thirteen novels, dozens of essays and plays, all of which critically engage various dimensions of Somali history, culture and politics. Farah wrote his first novel From a Crooked Rib in 1970 and has not looked back since and has since penned three trilogies: Variations on the Theme of African Dictatorship, the Blood in the Sun trilogy and then the Past Imperfect trilogy. He has famously declared that he writes about Somalia to “keep it alive” because, he says, “I live Somalia, I eat it, smell the death of it, the dust, daily.” Farah is the winner of the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Lettre Ulysses Award, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Premio Cavour and St. Malo Literature Festival Prize, among others. In this conversation, writer and editor Bhakti Shringarpure of the Radical Books collective speaks with Farah about his life, his prolific writing career, his penchant for stylistic experimentation and what it means to be a writer whose works become representative of a country and its people, both in Somalia and abroad.This conversation was hosted by Melahuset in Oslo (Norway) on September 28, 2023 to a live audience.

In honor of what would have been her 120th birthday, I sat down with the channeled spirit of famed diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, Anäis Nin. A finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976, French-born American Anaîs is known for her personal journals and is widely hailed as one of the best writers of female erotica. She was a bigamist, with husbands in New York and California, and has had numerous affairs with people like psychoanalyst Otto Rank and writer Henry Miller. Listen in to hear Anais talk about all of this, and more. Join our Book Club: patreon.com/parisundergroundradioFind Us OnlineWebsite: https://www.parisundergroundradio.com/storytimeinparisFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisundergroundradioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisundergroundradio/ CreditsHost and Producer: Jennifer Geraghty. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: @jennyphoria; Website: http://jennyphoria.comMusic CreditsHip Hop Rap Instrumental (Crying Over You) by christophermorrow https://soundcloud.com/chris-morrow-3​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2AHA5G9​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/hiYs5z4xdBU​ About UsSince well before Victor Hugo looked up at Notre Dame and thought, "Huh... what if a hunchback lived in there?" authors have been inspired by Paris. The Storytime in Paris podcast will help keep this tradition alive with short interviews and readings from your favorite contemporary authors with a French connection. Every episode will feature five questions, asked by you, our authors' biggest fans, and answered live on air. Then, our authors will treat us to a reading of an excerpt from their book. Who knows? Maybe you'll even be inspired to write your own Great French Novel. Happy listening!

What do you do when what sustains you no longer sustains you? A poet tries everything he can to reconnect with his art. Adam Zagajewski was a Polish poet and novelist born at the end of World War II. English translations of his books of poetry include Mysticism for Beginners (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999), Without End (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003), Eternal Enemies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009), and Asymmetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019). Zagajewski was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982), the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2004), and the Heinrich Mann Prize (2015).Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Adam Zagajewski's poem translated by Clare Cavanagh, and invite you to connect with Poetry Unbound throughout this season.Pre-order the forthcoming book Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World and join us in our new conversational space on Substack.

Born in the Mekong Delta, Hoa Nguyen was raised and educated in the United States and has lived in Canada since 2011. Hoa has had the privilege to work and teach all over the United States and Canada and is the author of several books including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. Her fifth book of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure was named a finalist for a Kingsley Tufts Award, National Book Award and the Governor General's Literary Award and has garnered additional support from The Poetry Foundation, Library Journal, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her writing has been promoted by such outlets as Granta, PEN American Center, CBC Books, Boston Review, The Best Canadian Poetry series, Poetry, The Walrus, and Pleiades. In 2019, she was nominated for a Neustadt International Prize for Literature, a prestigious international literary award often compared with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more about Hao here. You can follow Hoa on Twitter, here, on Instagram, here, and on Facebook, here. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried sending me a message on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet? Either way, we would like to reward you for checking out these episode notes with a special limited time coupon for 15% off your next purchase of Mary's Brigadeiro's amazing chocolate, simply use the code "ehpoetrypodcast" on the checkout page of your order. If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Czesław Miłosz was born to Weronika and Aleksander Milosz on June 30, 1911, in Szetejnie, Lithuania (then under the domination of the Russian tsarist government). Milosz graduated from high school in 1929, and in 1930 his first poems were published in Alma Mater Vilnenis, a university magazine. In 1931 he cofounded the Polish avant-garde literary group "Zagary"; his first collection of verse appeared in 1933. He spent most of World War II in Nazi-occupied Warsaw working for underground presses.After the war, he came to the United States as a diplomat for the Polish communist government, working at the Polish consulate first in New York City, then in Washington D. C. In 1950 he was transferred to Paris, and the following year he requested and received political asylum. He spent the next decade in Paris as a freelance writer. In 1953 he published The Captive Mind (Alfred A. Knopf), and his novel, The Seizure of Power (Criterion Books, 1955), received the Prix Littéraire European from the Swiss Book Guild. In 1960 he moved to the United States to become a lecturer in Polish literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He later became professor of Slavic languages and literature. He did not visit Poland again until 1981.In 1980, Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors include an award for poetry translations from the Polish PEN Center in Warsaw, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He has written virtually all of his poems in his native Polish, although his work was banned in Poland until after he won the Nobel Prize. He has also translated the works of other Polish writers into English, and has cotranslated his own works with such poets as Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky. His translations into Polish include portions of the Bible (from Hebrew and Greek) and works by Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Simone Weil, and Walt Whitman. He died on August 14, 2004.From https://poets.org/poet/czeslaw-milosz. For more information about Czesław Miłosz:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Elif Shafak about Milosz, at 02:08: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-025-elif-shafakEdward Hirsch about Milosz, at 18:58: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-173-edward-hirschSuketu Mehta about Milosz, at 16:00: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-079-suketu-mehta“The Separate Notebooks”: https://www.amazon.com/Separate-Notebooks-Czeslaw-Milosz/dp/0880010312/“Czeslaw Milosz”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously, Claire of the Sea Light, and Everything Inside. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States,  Best American Essays 2011,  Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2. She  has written seven books for  children and young adults, Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, Untwine, My Mommy Medicine, as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a  2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.  She is a 2009 MacArthur fellow, a 2018 Ford Foundation  “The Art of Change” fellow, and the winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize and the 2019 St. Louis Literary Award. From https://edwidgedanticat.com/about. For more information about Edwidge Danticat:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Edwidge Danticat on The Quarantine Tapes: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-018-edwidge-danticatJames McBride about Danticat, at 14:05: ​​https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-092-james-mcbrideIbram X. Kendi about Danticat, at 13:40: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-087-ibram-x-kendiCreate Dangerously: https://edwidgedanticat.com/non-fiction#/books/create-dangerously“It Wants to Be Told: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat”: https://kenyonreview.org/2019/10/it-wants-to-be-told-an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/“An Interview, Edwidge Danticat”: https://www.bkreview.org/fall-2018/an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/

C'est la ministre française des Armées qui le dit ce matin dans Le Journal du Dimanche : « la population malienne fait face à des autorités issues de deux coups d'Etat. Il s'agit d'autorités de transition qui doivent rétrocéder le pouvoir à des autorités civiles élues selon un calendrier qui est connu de tous », dit Florence Parly au JDD. Et en effet, la ministre des Armées en appelle « au respect pur et simple de cet engagement d'organiser des élections en février 2022 ». Florence Parly qui déclare par ailleurs ceci au Journal du Dimanche : « prétendre que la France quitte le Sahel n'est pas exact ». Ces déclarations interviennent au surlendemain de l'annulation (officiellement pour raisons sanitaires) de la visite d'Emmanuel Macron au Mali. Initialement prévue demain, cette visite annulée avant-hier par Paris se serait déroulée dans une région où « le sentiment antifrançais ne cesse d'enfler », énonce Le Journal du Dimanche. Pour en prendre la mesure, et bien avant cet incident, l'hebdomadaire Marianne s'était rendu sur place afin d'illustrer « la soif de changement, le besoin d'oxygène et d'avenir (qui) soufflent fort de Dakar à Ouagadougou », la France en faisant « les frais », notait déjà ce magazine. Évoquant aussi bien le président de la transition malienne Assimi Goïta que son homologue guinéen Mamadi Doumbouya, Marianne constate que « des gens d'origines très diverses disent vouloir tenter le pari de l'alternance avec ces hommes en treillis qu'ils ne qualifient pas (uniquement) de factieux, mais (aussi) de patriotes ». Étant rappelé que les militaires maliens ont jusqu'au 27 décembre 2021 pour annoncer la date des élections devant mettre fin à la transition, un ancien cadre du M5-RFP dit à Marianne que « presque personne ne veut de cette élection dans les mois à venir alors que les problèmes de sécurité et tout simplement de survie restent cruciaux. Et, d'abord, avec quels électeurs ? », interroge dans Marianne cet ex-dirigeant du mouvement de contestation à l'origine de la chute de l'ex-président Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. La situation en Ukraine et l'Otan qui dit « non » à la Russie Dans un entretien au Journal du Dimanche, le secrétaire général de l'Alliance atlantique explique pourquoi l'Otan refuse de neutraliser l'Ukraine. Laquelle « a le droit de demander de l'aide » pour se défendre, dit Jens Stoltenberg au JDD, « et je ne vois pas en quoi cela menace la Russie, qui est l'agresseur dans ce conflit (…) Si donc la Russie, une nouvelle fois, décide d'utiliser la force militaire contre l'Ukraine, elle aura à en payer le prix et il sera élevé », ajoute-t-il encore. Littérature: une collection sans précédent de prix littéraires récoltée cette année par des écrivains africains Ce fut en effet une première en Europe, souligne L'Express. « Quelle moisson ! », lance cet hebdomadaire, en en dressant l'inventaire : le prix Nobel de littérature au Tanzanien Abdulrazak Gurnah ; le Goncourt au Sénégalais Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, pour son roman La plus secrète mémoire des hommes ; le Booker Prize au Sud-Africain Damon Galgut pour The Promise ; l'International Booker Prize au Sénégalais David Diop pour la version anglaise de Frère d'âme ; le prix Camões, plus importante distinction littéraire du monde lusophone, décerné à l'unanimité à la Mozambicaine Paulina Chiziane, et le Neustadt International Prize for Literature au Sénégalais Boubacar Boris Diop.  Pour L'Express, « cela témoigne enfin de la part des jurys du Vieux Continent d'une ouverture aux imaginaires africains dans toute leur variété et d'une reconnaissance de ce que cette littérature a d'universel ». Et ce magazine espère que « l'onde de choc de l'exceptionnelle récolte africaine de 2021 » poussera les responsables de salons du livre et de festivals littéraires en France à considérer « enfin » les écrivains africains francophones pour ce qu'ils sont : « des romanciers de langue française ».

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Czeslaw Milosz was born to Weronika and Aleksander Milosz on June 30, 1911, in Szetejnie, Lithuania (then under the domination of the Russian tsarist government). Milosz graduated from high school in 1929, and in 1930 his first poems were published in Alma Mater Vilnenis, a university magazine. In 1931 he cofounded the Polish avant-garde literary group "Zagary"; his first collection of verse appeared in 1933. He spent most of World War II in Nazi-occupied Warsaw working for underground presses.After the war, he came to the United States as a diplomat for the Polish communist government, working at the Polish consulate first in New York City, then in Washington D. C. In 1950 he was transferred to Paris, and the following year he requested and received political asylum. He spent the next decade in Paris as a freelance writer. In 1953 he published The Captive Mind (Alfred A. Knopf), and his novel, The Seizure of Power (Criterion Books, 1955), received the Prix Littéraire European from the Swiss Book Guild. In 1960 he moved to the United States to become a lecturer in Polish literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He later became professor of Slavic languages and literature. He did not visit Poland again until 1981.In 1980, Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors include an award for poetry translations from the Polish PEN Center in Warsaw, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He has written virtually all of his poems in his native Polish, although his work was banned in Poland until after he won the Nobel Prize. He has also translated the works of other Polish writers into English, and has cotranslated his own works with such poets as Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky. His translations into Polish include portions of the Bible (from Hebrew and Greek) and works by Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Simone Weil, and Walt Whitman. He died on August 14, 2004.From https://poets.org/poet/czeslaw-milosz. For more information about Czeslaw MIlosz:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:“Ars Poetica?”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49455/ars-poetica-56d22b8f31558“Czeslaw Milosz's Battle for Truth”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/czeslaw-miloszs-battle-for-truth“Czeslaw Milosz”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz

This special podcast is a collaboration with our friends at Archipelago books, showcasing three of their wonderful poetry titles: Acrobat by Nabaneeta Dev Sen, translated by Nandana Dev Sen; Allegri by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated by Geoffrey Brock; And Until the Lions by Karthika Naïr. Buy Acrobat by Nabaneeta Dev Sen, translated by Nandana Dev Sen here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781939810809/acrobat Buy Allegri by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated by Geoffrey Brock here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781939810649/allegria Buy Until the Lions by Karthika Naïr here: https://archipelagobooks.org/book/until-the-lions-echoes-from-the-mahabharata/ * Famed for his brevity, Giuseppe Ungaretti's early poems swing nimbly from the coarse matter of tram wires, alleyways, quails in bushes, and hotel landladies to the mystic shiver of pure abstraction. These are the kinds of poems that, through their numinous clarity and shifting intimations, can make a poetry-lover of the most stone-faced non-believer. Ungaretti won multiple prizes for his poetry, including the 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He was a major proponent of the Hermetic style, which proposed a poetry in which the sounds of words were of equal import to their meanings. This auditory awareness echoes through Brock's hair-raising translations, where a man holding vigil with his dead, open-mouthed comrade, says, “I have never felt / so fastened / to life.” * A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, “know that blood can be easily drawn by lips,” her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the “treachery that lingers on tongue tips.” At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord – they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together. * A dazzling and eloquent reworking of the Mahabharata, the ancient Asian epic, through nineteen voices on the periphery. With daring poetic forms, Karthika Naïr breathes life into this ancient epic. In Until the Lions, Karthika Naïr retells the Mahabharata through the embodied voices of women and marginal characters, so often conquered and destroyed throughout history. She captures the richness and complexity of the Mahabharata, while illuminating lives buried beneath the edifices of one of the world's most venerated books. Through shifting poetic forms, ranging from pantoums to Petrarchan sonnets, Naïr choreographs the cadences of stray voices. And with a passionate empathy, she tells of nameless soldiers, their despairing spouses and lovers, a canny empress, an all-powerful god, and a gender-shifting outcast warrior. Until the Lions is a kaleidoscopic, poetic tour de force. It reveals the most intimate threads of desire, greed, and sacrifice in this foundational epic. * Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-time Listen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1

Patricia Grace is one of Aotearoa's most celebrated writers. The author of seven novels, seven short story collections, as well as a number of children's and non-fiction books. Patricia has received many national and international awards across her five decades of writing, including the prestigious Neustadt International Prize. Patricia Grace has now penned her memoir, it's called From the Centre: A Writer's Life, and has been launched this weekend at the Auckland Writers Festival. LISTEN ABOVE

In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte discusses the influential Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz (1914-1998). Recognized as one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century, Paz was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1981, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1982, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. In this episode, Schulte discusses how Octavio Paz introduces us to a different way of thinking in the 20th century when we are confronted with literary works or essayist works. Listen the our New Poetic Vision series today to travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry with Professor Rainer Schulte and learn about poets whose works profoundly changed the way we interpret poetry and the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Valentina ParisiAdam Zagajewski"Prova a cantare il mondo storpiato"Interlinea Edizionihttps://www.interlinea.com/«Ma noi siamo vivi, / colmi di memoria e ragione» è la risposta di Adam Zagajewski ai drammi della storia e alla spersonalizzazione della società attuale, collocando sotto la sua lente d'ingrandimento piccoli particolari quotidiani molto rivelatori: così le ombre dei turisti sulla tomba di Brecht sembrano quelle degli informatori della stasi che lo pedinavano da vivo e la gatta di Ruth, ignara di essere ebrea come la sua padrona, di notte dal ghetto torna sempre alla parte ariana. Per l'autore di quest'antologia, che affronta la Shoah come l'11 settembre ma anche gli ex paradisi naturali fagocitati dal turismo di massa, resta lo spaesamento dei «poeti, invisibili come minatori, nascosti sottoterra» che «costruiscono per noi una casa», quella della consapevolezza civile di dover essere vivi e vigili «e talvolta particolarmente orgogliosi, / perché in noi grida il futuro / e quel balbettio ci fa umani».Adam ZagajewskiDerek Walcott ha definito la sua poesia «voce sommessa sullo sfondo delle immense devastazioni di un secolo osceno, più intima di quella di Auden, non meno cosmopolita di quelle di Miłosz, Celan, Brodskij». Adam Zagajewski è nato nel 1945 a Leopoli, città che ha lasciato quell'anno stesso insieme alla sua famiglia, espulsa dai sovietici che se ne erano impadroniti nel 1944. Cresciuto a Gliwice, Slesia, e cioè in quei territori tedeschi che nel dopoguerra furono annessi alla Repubblica Popolare di Polonia, Zagajewski ha studiato psicologia e filosofia all'università Jagellonica di Cracovia, diventando ben presto uno dei protagonisti della corrente “Nowa Fala” o “Generazione del '68”, che riuniva i giovani poeti più critici nei confronti del regime. Pubblica la sua prima raccolta, Komunikat nel 1972. Nel 1975 è tra i firmatari della Lettera dei 59, sottoscritta da sessantasei intellettuali polacchi per protestare contro l'introduzione nella Costituzione di paragrafi riguardanti l'alleanza con l'Unione Sovietica e il ruolo-guida del Partito Operaio Unificato Polacco. Dopo aver vissuto a lungo all'estero, prima a Berlino e poi a Parigi, è tornato a risiedere a Cracovia nel 2002. Insignito del Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2004), del premio Heinrich Mann (2015) e del premio Principessa delle Asturie (2017), insegna da anni all'università di Chicago. In Italia Adelphi ha pubblicato una raccolta di prose, Tradimento (2007, a cura di L. Bernardini, traduzione di V. Parisi), e Dalla vita degli oggetti, un'ampia scelta dalla sua produzione poetica a cura di Krystyna Jaworska (2012), con Interlinea ha pubblicato Prova a cantare il mondo storpiato (2019).Valentina ParisiDopo il dottorato di ricerca in letterature slave, ha vissuto all'estero con varie borse di studio, in Germania e a Budapest.Attualmente assegnista di ricerca in letteratura russa presso l'Università degli Studi di Pavia, ha tradotto dal russo opere di Alexandra Petrova, Lev Šestov, Pavel Florenskij, Léon Bakst, Pavel Sanaev, Vasilij Grossman, Anton Čechov, Vasilij Golovanov e, dal polacco, testi in prosa di Wisława Szymborska, Adam Zagajewski, Hanna Krall, Stanisław Lem. Ha pubblicato un libro sull'editoria clandestina nell'Urss –Il lettore eccedente. Edizioni periodiche del samizdat sovietico, 1956-1990 (Il Mulino) e Guida alla Mosca ribelle (Voland). Nel 2019 pubblica per Exòrma Editore Una mappa per Kaliningrad. Dal 2007 collabora regolarmente alle pagine culturali de Il manifesto e di AliasD. Ha scritto inoltre su Diario della settimana, Galatea, Pagina 99 e Alfabeta2IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Post-election, there are still urgent questions of the political and legal moment that must be addressed. Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Russell Banks, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Blanco, and Fernand R. Amandi to discuss what just happened and what must happen next, especially on how the Democratic party can connect with Trump voters across America. RUSSELL BANKS, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of numerous books, including Everything Inside: Stories (Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Story Prize and the 2020 Vilcek Prize in Literature), The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist; Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book; Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; and Krik? Krak!, also a National Book Award finalist. A 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” grant, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere. RICHARD BLANCO is the award-winning author of several books. Blanco's poetry collections include City of a Hundred Fires, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, and How to Love a Country. He currently serves as the first-ever Education Ambassador for the Academy of American Poets and is a member of the Obama Foundation's advisory council.FERNAND R. AMANDI is the managing partner of Bendixen & Amandi, the nation's leading multilingual and multiethnic public opinion research and strategic communications consulting firm. Mr. Amandi is also an MSNBC contributor, instructor at the University of Miami, and host of the #StrangeDaysPodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What would your self-portrait look like today? Adam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He has published fourteen books of poetry, eight of them in English translation and numerous essays and prose. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, won the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature considered a forerunner to the Nobel Prize in Literature, won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award and the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature.  He is considered one of the leading poets of Generation of ‘68’ of the Polish New Wave and is one of Poland’s most prominent contemporary poets. Zagajewski used to teach poetry workshops as a visiting lecturer at the School of Literature and Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow as well as a creative writing course at the University of Houston. He currently is a faculty member at the University of Chicago and a member of its Committee on Social Thought.

How can we stay in perfect balance? Adam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He has published fourteen books of poetry, eight of them in English translation and numerous essays and prose. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, won the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature considered a forerunner to the Nobel Prize in Literature, won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award and the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature.  He is considered one of the leading poets of Generation of ‘68’ of the Polish New Wave and is one of Poland’s most prominent contemporary poets. Zagajewski used to teach poetry workshops as a visiting lecturer at the School of Literature and Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow as well as a creative writing course at the University of Houston. He currently is a faculty member at the University of Chicago and a member of its Committee on Social Thought.

An interview with Nuruddin Farah, novelist and winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah was in Pittsburgh for an editorial meeting of the journal boundary 2. Special thanks for Professor Paul Bové for helping arrange the interview.

Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez was a Colombian journalist, novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter active throughout the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Known to his friends as Gabo or Gabito, Marquez is considered one of the best writers of the Spanish language, earning him the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. His writing explores the themes of solitude, magical realism, and his brilliant portrayal of Latin American everyday life, as is reflected in novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. These works, along with many others, earned Marquez widespread commercial success and celebrity, as well as monumental critical acclaim. Yet what many do not know about Marquez is that his career was jumpstarted by his passion for journalism, in which he relentlessly pursued his stories in an effort to shed light on the problems faced in Latin America, ranging from his war-torn home country of Colombia to his personal reviews of film, which later led to a stint in screenwriting. Marquez was also bffs with Fidel Castro (we’ll get to that), a socialist who was powerfully critical of the United States, and a family man who was married with two sons. It is easy to see how remarkable Marquez was, particularly in such a volatile time and on an international landscape. Regardless of his stance on American politics, his love of Hemingway and Faulkner is something I both greatly appreciate and adore about Marquez, and it is deeply reflected in his writing. Are we ready to hear all about the incredibly impactful life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Here we go episode 18!

Dubravka Ugrešić is considered one of Europe’s most distinctive novelists and essayists.  She is the 2016 winner of Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her body of work, joining literary luminaries from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Elizabeth Bishop to Octavio Paz. In 1991 when war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, Ugrešić took a firm […] The post Dubravka Ugrešić : Fox & American Fictionary appeared first on Tin House.

Henning Lederer ha realizzato un video dal titolo Covers animando 55 copertine di libri vintage. Oltre 150mila presenze per BookCity a Milano. Dubravka Ugrešić ha vinto il Neustadt International Prize for Literature…

Henning Lederer ha realizzato un video dal titolo Covers animando 55 copertine di libri vintage. Oltre 150mila presenze per BookCity a Milano. Dubravka Ugrešić ha vinto il Neustadt International Prize for Literature…

Henning Lederer ha realizzato un video dal titolo Covers animando 55 copertine di libri vintage. Oltre 150mila presenze per BookCity a Milano. Dubravka Ugrešić ha vinto il Neustadt International Prize for Literature…

On Saturday 9th May, the Nairobi Forum hosted an evening with renowned Somali author Nuruddin Farah at the offices of the Rift Valley Institute. Nuruddin spoke about Somali cultural losses in the civil war. Nuruddin is the winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Lettre Ulysses Award, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His body of work includes two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship (1980) and Blood in the Sun (1986). His most recent novel, Crossbones, was published in 2011.