Here is the latest English Pen bulletin, with details of new writing from Albanian, Chinese and Lebanese Authors and promotional events, that I thought my followers would be interested in:
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English PEN promotes new
writing from Albanian, Chinese and Lebanese authors
Another month, another great set of books and events for PEN
supporters to enjoy! We’re proud to be promoting not one but three
books this coming October, including Chinese writer Chen Xiwo’s
controversial and provocative new title The Book of Sins (translated by Nicky
Harman), Albanian writer Fatos
Lubonja’s The False Apocalypse, set amidst
corruption and anarchy in post-communist Albania (translated by John
Hodgson), and Lebanese writer Dominque
Eddé’s Kamal Jann, a novel about the fate and
fortunes of a Syrian family (translated by Ros Schwartz).
Here’s more on each of these PEN award-winning titles, including
information about the respective UK author tours:
The Book of
Sins,
published by Make-Do
Publishing
An edgy exploration of sexual and political deviance that should
appeal to British fans of fiction by the likes of Irvine Welsh and
early Ian McEwan. The book was banned and the author caused an
international sensation after he sued the Chinese government to force
them to explain the ban...
- Chen Xiwo at Blackwells, Oxford
on Wednesday 8
October at 7pm
- Chen Xiwo in conversation with Nicky Harman
and Publisher Harvey Thomlinson at Leeds University on Thursday 9 October
at 4.30pm
- Chen Xiwo at Word Power Books, Edinburgh on
Saturday 11
October at 12pm
You can
also Read about how translators promote 'their' work from Chen
Xiwo's translator Nicky Harman on World Bookshelf.
The False
Apocalypse,
published by Istros
Books
This unique and disturbing work concerns the events of 1997, a tragic
year in the history of post-communist Albania. After the world’s most
isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and opened to
capitalism, many people fell prey to fraudsters who invited them to
invest in so-called ‘pyramid schemes’. At the start of 1997, these
pyramids crumbled one after another causing wide-spread
demonstrations and protests...
- Fatos Lubonja in conversation with translator
John Hodgson at LSE, London
on Wednesday 15
October at 6pm
- Internal Exiles - Fatos Lubonja (Albania),
Peter Kristufek (Slovakia) and Francesca Rhydderch (Wales) in
conversation with Rebecca Gould at the Free Word Centre, London
on Thursday 16
October at 6.30pm
- A PEN Cymru Reception with Fatos Lubonja at
the Cameo Club, Cardiff at
7pm on Friday 17
October. This will be followed by a discussion
on International Fiction with Peter Krištúfek, Francesca
Rhydderch and Fatos Lubonja at 8pm
- Fatos Lubonja and Peter Krištúfek in
conversation at Rombalds Hotel, Ilkley as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival on
Sunday
19 October at 3pm
Kamal Jann, published by Seagull
Books
In a world rife with deceit, the fortunes of the divided Jann family
echo the conflicts tearing apart the Middle East, Syria in
particular. Set in Damascus, New York, Beirut, Tel Aviv and Paris,
Dominique Eddé’s gripping novel contains elements of a Greek tragedy
– fratricide, strong women, alliances and misalliances of all hues,
damaged lives and impossible loves. This is a decaying world undermined
by decades of abuse and corruption, against which the Arab peoples
rose in the spring of 2011...
- Dominique Eddé and Elif Shafak in
conversation with Maureen Freely, translator and President of
English PEN at Waterstones Piccadilly, London
on Wednesday
15 October at 7pm
- Dominique Eddé in conversation with
translator Ros Schwartz at Birmingham Library
on Thursday 16
October at 6pm
- Dominique Eddé in conversation with Dr Jane
Hiddleston. This is an Oxford Student PEN
event in Seminar room 3, St Anne’s College, Oxford on
Friday 17 October
at 4pm
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