Posts Tagged ‘Weekend’

Exile and Language – World Literature Weekend 2010 at the London Review Bookshop (trailer )

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Central European Classics – World Literature Weekend 2010 at the London Review Bookshop

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Translation: Making a Whole Culture Intelligible? Panel Discussion at World Literature Weekend 2009

Sunday, December 25th, 2011


Four past winners of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize gathered in the Paul Hamlyn Library to discuss the difficulties of selling translated literature, the cultural resources available to translators, working on dead authors, translating dialect, and a host of other tricky areas involved in literary translation. The panel was chaired by the Arts Councils Kate Griffin.

Ahdaf Soueif and Hisham Matar – World Literature Weekend 2010 at the London Review Bookshop

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Highlights of World Literature Weekend 2009

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011


The London Review Bookshops inaugural World Literature Weekend on 19 – 21 June was a lively and stimulating affair, and well attended by the public. From Hanan al-Shaykhs talk with Esther Freud on Friday afternoon to Marina Warner and Robert Chandlers closing discussion on Sunday evening, the enthusiasm of the audience was apparent at every event.

Dubravka Ugrešić with Lisa Appignanesi at World Literature Weekend 2009

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011


Dubravka Ugrešić worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar. She has won a host of awards, including the PEN Writers in Translation Award in 2006. Dubravka Ugrešić discussed her new novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg with the current President of English PEN, Lisa Appignanesi, on Sunday 21 June 2009.

Hanan al-Shaykh with Esther Freud – World Literature Weekend 2009

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011


Launching the Bookshops inaugural World Literature Weekend, Hanan al-Shaykh gave a lively reading from her memoir of her mother, The Locust and the Bird, as well as discussing the book with novelist Esther Freud.

Mourid Barghouti with Ruth Padel – World Literature Weekend 2009

Sunday, December 5th, 2010


Midnight and Other Poems, translated by Radwa Ashour, is the first major collection of Mourid Barghoutis poetry to be published in the UK. This remarkable Palestinian writer, best known to English-language readers for his autobiography I Saw Ramallah, which won the Naguib Mahfouz Award for Literature, has spent many years in exile, and Midnight is a rich emotional montage of images of the land of his birth. On Sunday 21 June he read, then spoke with Ruth Padel, whose latest book is Darwin: A Life in Poems. Barghouti and Padel discussed translation, home and homelessness, here and away, language and landscape, self and other.