please join us for a conversation between Álvaro Enrigue and Jonathan Blitzer on the life and work of Juan Carlos Onetti, and his collection A Dream Come True, translated by Katherine Silver. Tuesday, January 21st 7:00pm 192 Books – 192 10th Avenue at 21st street Álvaro Enrigue is an award winning novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. […]
Join us at 192 Books for a celebration of Christos Ikonomou's Good Will Come From the Sea. Translator Karen Emmerich will discuss her deft translation of this burning, empathetic collection with Sophia Efthimiatou, Associate Director of the Onassis Foundation. Come for warm company, a rousing discussion of this unforgettable book and the craft of translation, and […]
Writer and professor Jonathan Brent is joined by translator Marian Schwartz to discuss her new translation of Leonid Yuzefovich's Horsemen of the Sands from the Russian. Marian Schwartz has translated over sixty volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction, history, biography, criticism, and fine art.
Please join us for a discussion of An Untouched House, Willem Frederik Hermans’ "slim but potent war story" (Kirkus Reviews, starred). This event features translator David Colmer in conversation with Dutch author Philip Huff. David Colmer is a writer and translator. He translates Dutch literature in a wide range of genres including literary fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and poetry. […]
Join French author Christine Angot at 192 Books in conversation with Violaine Huisman. We hope to see you there!
Named after Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s own sharp self-description, Vulture in a Cage is the most extensive collection of the 11th century Hebrew poet’s works ever to be published in English. Weighty poems of praise, lament, and complaint sit alongside devotional poetry, love poetry, descriptive meditations on nature, and epigrams. Raymond P. Scheindlin, translator and editor of […]
