What a weekend of events!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the PEN World Voices events this weekend. Below are some pictures taken by Erling Maartmann-Moe, a Norwegian tourist who dropped by and snapped some photos.

Karl Ove Knausgaard prepares for the reading at Invisible Dog.

More after the jump:

Karl Ove Knausgaard at the PEN Literary Safari in the Westbeth Center for the Arts Gallery.

Karl Ove Knausgaard reading for the PEN Messiah in Brooklyn event at Invisible Dog.

The storefront.

And our own hastily-snapped photo of the Invisible Dog gallery, with Knausgaard at the helm! :

Thanks to everyone who came out to the royal norwegian consul general’s house for the launch of my struggle: book one!

It was a great turnout, in a lovely apartment, with an enthralling conversation between authors karl ove knausgaard & siri hustvedt.

Iza, one of the archipelago interns, enjoys the event & the view:

Real consequences of writing the truth:

Knausgaard discusses his life in the wake of MY STRUGGLE, forthcoming in May from Archipelago.

  

Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award 2012 Fiction Longlist is up.

And Polish translator Bill Johnston is on it…TWICE!

Go, Bill!

 

Storyville features Herman Bosman’s
“Mafeking Road” as This Week’s Story!

Storyville features “one story each week from the best story collections published by commercial and independent presses” and works to “change the way you engage and interact with the world of literature through your iPhone, iPad, and Kindle.”

Download the app for various e-readers.

More info here.

Two back-to-back readings with Bill Johnston, Polish translator of Magdalena Tulli’s In Red.

February 23
7pm – FREE
192 Books
192 Tenth Street at 21st Street
New York, NY

February 25
5pm – FREE
Community Bookstore
143 Seventh Ave
Brooklyn, NY

Join us!

Amy Waldman declares Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin a “must read” in All Things Considered on NPR.

Elias Khoury is the author of Gate of the Sun, Yalo, White Masks, and the forthcoming As Though She Were Sleeping (all from Archipelago Books), is scheduled for two events at the PEN American Festival

Karl Ove Knausgaard is the author of A TIme for Everything and My Struggle, forthcoming from Archipelago in Spring 2012.

The PEN World Voices Festival will take place April 30 – May 6, 2012 in NYC.

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