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Nandana Dev Sen, Anselm Berrigan, & Catherine Barnett in Conversation

Nandana Dev Sen, Anselm Berrigan, and Catherine Barnett delve into their bodies of work, reading from their poetry and speaking to how their political beliefs and familial relationships have influenced their writing lives. The Brooklyn Book Festival will host this reading and conversation inside at McNally Jackson Seaport, with masks and proof of vaccination required. After the conversation, we will gather outside on the cobblestones, where refreshments will be served and there will be a book signing.

Nandana Dev Sen is a writer, actor, and child-rights activist. She has written six children’s books (translated into more than 15 languages globally), starred in 20 feature films, and is the translator of Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s poetry collection, Acrobat. She has represented UNICEF, RAHI and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to fight against child abuse, and to end human trafficking. Winner of the Last Girl Champion Award (and multiple Best Actress Awards), Nandana is Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children India. Nandana is on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter  (all three at Nandana Dev Sen). For news and updates, please swing by www.nandanadevsen.com.

Anselm Berrigan is the author of Pregrets, a collection of poetry published by Black Square Editions, and eight other books of poetry including: Something for Everybody, (Wave Books, 2018), Come In Alone (Wave Books, 2016), and Primitive State (Edge, 2015). He is the poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail and is the co-editor with Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011).

Catherine Barnett is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award. She has received a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.

We look forward to seeing you there!

A conversation with Nandana Dev Sen and Suketu Mehta

On Monday, September 13th at 7pm CDT/ 8pm EST, Brazos Bookstore will host an online conversation with Nandana Dev Sen and Suketu Mehta to discuss Nandana’s translation of her mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s collection of poems, Acrobat. More information available here.

Nandana Dev Sen is a writer, actor, and child-rights activist. She has written six children’s books (translated into more than 15 languages globally), and starred in 20 feature films (from four continents, in numerous languages). She has represented UNICEF, RAHI and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to fight against child abuse, and to end human trafficking. Winner of the Last Girl Champion Award (and multiple Best Actress Awards), Nandana is Child Protection Ambassador for Save the Children India. Nandana is on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter  (all three at Nandana Dev Sen). For news and updates, please swing by www.nandanadevsen.com.

Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ and ‘All Things Considered.’

Register for the Zoom event here.