Radka Denemarková to attend a New York literary festival
Today’s Europe is a fascinating convergence of old and new, with high speed trains roaring past thousand-year-old towns. The past and present are never far away from each other, and this year’s New Literature from Europe festival explores this proximity by presenting some of the most powerful recent works of fiction by eight of the most important contemporary European authors. In Haunting the Present, the festival’s seventh annual series, the overriding theme is the continued sway of history on contemporary life. Readers will witness the changes over a century in one house in Bucharest and in another house on a lake outside Berlin as its residents flee each successive regime. They will be transported from the mythical Polish village of Primeval to a small, bucolic French town shortly after World War II, and beyond.
In this year’s New Literature from Europe, eight cultural institutes have teamed up to present a series of discussions and readings featuring eight critically acclaimed European writers: Philippe Claudel (France), Kirmen Uribe (Spain), Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), Gerhard Roth (Austria), Radka Denemarková (Czech Republic), Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Gabriela Adameşteanu (Romania), and Antonia Arslan (Italy). Moderators will include distinguished writer André Aciman, chair of Comparative Literature and director of the Writers' Institute at the CUNY Graduate Center and Susan Bernofsky, Guest Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College (CUNY).
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Radka Denemarková’s profile intended for the purposes of her participation at the New Literature From Europe festival can be found here. You can also find an excerpt from Andrew Oakland‘s English translation of her novel Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler, Canadian Scholars´Press/Women´s Press, 2009).
Excerpt from the Radka Denemarková novel Who's That Banging at the Door? (A já pořád, kdo to tluče; 2005), translated by Alex Zucker on the occasion of the seventh annual New Literature From Europe festival in New York.
The festival event that Radka Denemarková is scheduled to speak at:
16. 11. 2010 19:00 Haunting the Present: A Reading with Eight European Writers, McNally-Jackson Books, 52 Prince St. Lafayette, New York, NY
17. 11. 2010 18:30 Haunting the Present: A Conversation with the Authors, The Center for Fiction,17 East 47th Street, New York, NY
18. 11. 2010 19:00 Eight European Voices: Reading and Reception, Czech Center, 321 East, 73rd Street, New York, NY
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