Khoury and Knausgaard at PEN World Voices Festival NYC event

Elias Khoury and Karl Knausgaard have been invited to partake in the PEN World Voices Festival (April 26-May 2), the largest celebration of international literature in the country!  Please join us for these events.

Events with Elias Khoury

Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers: A PEN Freedom to Write Event
An evening of readings from documentary and imaginative literature from around the world, in which people have stood face-to-face with their torturers.
Thursday, April 29, 9:30–10:45 p.m.
Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York City
$15/$10 PEN & ACLU Members

World Nomads Lebanon: Elias Khoury
Renowned Lebanese author Elias Khoury will be interviewed by Neil Gordon and read selections from his new novel White Masks.
Sunday, May 2, 1–2 p.m.
Le Skyroom, French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), 22 East 60th Street, between Madison and Park, New York City
Free and open to the public

Events with Karl Knausgaard

An Around the World Reading
With Karl O. Knausgaard, Preston L. Allen, Javier Cercas, Siri Hustvedt, Anne Landsman, Thomas Pletzinger, Monique Proulx, Lee Stringer, Christos Tsiolkas, and Tommy Wieringa
A very special evening of fiction and nonfiction readings by award-winning writers from here and abroad.
Thursday, April 29, 7–8:30 p.m.
Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York City
$15/$10 PEN & ACLU Members

Heaven and Earth
With Karl O. Knausgaard, Joris Luyendijk, Monique Proulx, and Natalia Sannikova; moderated by Noreen Tomassi
Writers have any number of tools up their sleeve—structure, genre, and language are among some of the many devices they can call upon. A conversation on the decisions writers must make before they even put pen to paper.
Friday, April 30, 4:30–6 p.m.
Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York City
Free but reservations are required