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SUMMARY:Selma Asotić & Stacy Mattingly at Brookline Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event on March 27th with poet Selma Asotić to discuss and honor the release of Say Fire. She will be in conversation with writer Stacy Mattingly. \nThe Transnational Series focuses on stories of migration\, the intersection of politics and literature\, and works in translation and is supported by the independent bookstore Brookline Booksmith. Subscribe to the Transnational Series newsletter for information on upcoming events\, book recommendations\, and more.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/selma-asotic-and-stacy-mattingly-at-brookline-booksmith/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard St\, Brookline\, MA\, 02446\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emmelie Prophète and translator Aidan Rooney at the Brookline Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with author Emmelie Prophète and translator Aidan Rooney to discuss and honor the release of Cécé. \n  \nThe Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith \nThe Transnational Series focuses on stories of migration\, the intersection of politics and literature\, and works in translation and is supported by the independent bookstore Brookline Booksmith. Subscribe to the Transnational Series newsletter for information on upcoming events\, book recommendations\, and more. \n  \nWhat You Need to Know to Attend \nRSVP to let us know you’re coming! RSVPs don’t guarantee a seat\, but you’ll be alerted to important details about the program\, including safety requirements\, cancellations\, and book signing updates. \n  \nReserve a Book \n\nBooks will be available for purchase at the event\, but you can ensure that you get a copy by preordering on this page. You can pick your book up after 6:30PM on the day of the event.\nCan’t make it to the event? Preorder the book here to have it signed\, and choose to have it held or shipped from the store! Book orders are processed for pickup or shipping after ticket sales have closed.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/emmelie-prophete-and-translator-aidan-rooney-at-the-brookline-booksmith/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard St\, Brookline\, MA\, 02446\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kalpana Raina & Shubha Sunder at Brookline Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Boston at Brookline Booksmith for a reading\, conversation\, and signing with Kalpana Raina and Shubha Sunder. \nKalpana Raina was born in Kashmir and lives in New York. She is a senior executive with extensive financial\, management and advisory experience internationally. Raina is currently the Vice Chair at Words Without Borders\, a premier online journal of translations. Her collaborative translation project of stories from the Kashmiri language\, For Now\, It Is Night\, is her first work of translation. \nShubha Sunder’s stories and essays have appeared in places like Catapult\, The Common\, New Letters\, Crazyhorse\, and Narrative Magazine\, and received notable mentions in Best American Short Stories. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Flannery O’Connor Short Story Award\, the Hudson Prize\, and the New American Press Fiction Prize. She is a 2020 recipient of the City of Boston Artist Fellowship Award and a 2016 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Other distinctions include the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize\, Narrative “30 Below\,” and awards from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and from the Corporation of Yaddo. She teaches creative writing at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/conversation-with-kalpana-raina-jacob-rogers-jennifer-shyue-at-bpl-copy-copy-copy/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard St\, Brookline\, MA\, 02446\, United States
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays & Transnational Series Live: On Poetry and Translation at Brookline Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday April 21st at 7pm EDT\, Nandana Dev Sen will be reading alongside Jennifer Jean and Alex Braslavsky. Nandana will read from the book Acrobat\, by her mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen. The three writers will also engage in a conversation on poetry and translation. You can get a ticket to the event here. The event will also be livestreamed on the Brookline Booksmith YouTube channel. \nNABANEETA DEV SEN (1938-2019) remains one of the most beloved and versatile Bengali writers of all time. Equally expressive in poetry and prose\, fiction and non-fiction\, she has over one hundred books to her credit\, including compilations of poems\, novels\, plays\, stories\, memoirs\, academic essays\, children’s literature\, political columns\, literary translations\, and multiple volumes of her collected works. \nNANDANA DEV SEN is a writer\, actor and child-rights activist. She has starred in 20 feature films\, authored six children’s books\, translated into more than 15 languages globally\, and two collections of her translations of the poetry of her mother\, Nabaneeta Dev Sen. \nJENNIFER JEAN‘s poetry collections include VOZ\, Object Lesson\, and The Fool. She has received honors\, residencies\, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Her Story Is collective\, the Academy of American Poets\, the Kolkata International Poetry Festival\, and the Women’s Federation for World Peace\, among others. \nALEX BRASLAVSKY is a poet\, translator\, and scholar. She is a doctorate student in the Slavic Department at Harvard University\, where she writes scholarship on Russian\, Polish\, and Czech poetry through a comparative poetics lens.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/third-thursdays-transnational-series-live-on-poetry-and-translation-at-brookline-booksmith/
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SUMMARY:Hanne Ørstavik and Nina MacLaughlin discuss Ti Amo at Brookline Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:Join Hanne Ørstavik and writer Nina MacLaughlin in conversation about Ørstavik’s latest novel\, Ti Amo. Hosted by the Brookline Booksmith\, the event will take place at the bookshop on November 3rd\, at 7pm EST. \nHanne Ørstavik published the novel Cut in 1994 and embarked on a career that would make her one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of Love (Kjærlighet)\, which in 2006 was voted the 6th best Norwegian book of the last 25 years in a prestigious contest in Dagbladet\, and won the 2019 PEN Translation Prize. Since then\, the author has written several acclaimed and much discussed novels and received a host of literary prizes. \n  \n  \nNina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake\, Siren: Ovid Resung\, (FSG/FSG Originals)\, as well as Summer Solstice: An Essay (Black Sparrow). Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter (W.W. Norton). Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix\, she worked for nine years as a carpenter\, and is now a books columnist for the Boston Globe. Her work has appeared on or in The Paris Review Daily\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, n+1\, The Believer\, The New York Times Book Review\, Agni\, American Short Fiction\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the Wall Street Journal\, Meatpaper\, and elsewhere. \n  \n \n  \nIn Ti Amo\, an unnamed narrator tends to her husband\, stricken with cancer\, in the final months of his life. She examines the elements of their life together: their Vietnamese rose-colored folding table where they eat their meals\, each of the New Year’s Eves they’ve shared\, their friendships\, and their most intimate exchanges. With everything in flux\, she searches for the facets that will remain. Hanne Ørstavik writes\, “I have a compulsion for truth that feels like my very life force itself.” Tentative\, laced with a tingling frankness\, Ørstavik’s prose adheres so closely to the inner workings of its narrator’s mind as to nearly undo itself. In Martin Aitken’s translation\, Ørstavik’s piercing story sings.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/hanne-orstavik-and-nina-maclaughlin-at-brookline-booksmith/
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SUMMARY:Scholastique Mukasonga and Mark Polizzotti in celebration of Kibogo
DESCRIPTION:Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with Scholastique Mukasonga and translator Mark Polizzotti to celebrate the release of Kibogo. Longlisted for 2022 National Book Award\, it’s a masterwork of satire\, lore\, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature. The conversation will take place on September 29th\, at 7pm ET. You can register here. \nScholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. She settled in France in 1992\, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. Her groundbreaking books include: the debut novel Our Lady of the Nile\, Cockroaches (chosen by the New York Times as one of the fifty best memoirs of the last fifty years)\, Igifu\, and National Book Award-nominated The Barefoot Woman\, expertly translated by Jordan Stump. In 2021\, she won the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom. \n  \n  \n  \nMark Polizzotti is a biographer\, critic\, translator\, editor\, and poet. In 2016\, he received an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His translation of Eric Vuillard’s The War of the Poor was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. His own books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction; Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited; a monograph on Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados; and Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto. He has translated over fifty books from the French\, including works by Patrick Modiano\, Gustave Flaubert\, and Marguerite Duras\, among others. He directs the publications program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York. \n  \nIn Kibogo\, Mukasonga’s recounts the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries’ determination to replace them with European Christianity. When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo\, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humor\, Mukasonga brings to life the vital mythologies that imbue the Rwandan spirit. In doing so\, she gives us a tale of disarming simplicity and profound universal truth. \n  \n 
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/scholastique-mukasonga-mark-polizzotti-kibogo/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard St\, Brookline\, MA\, 02446\, United States
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