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Share Tweet Forward March 2017 Hello! This month: a short but sweet reading list inspired by International Women's Day; international literature event highlights; translation opportunities; and the return of PEN Atlas. If you would like to share translation news (events, stories, good things) through this bulletin, please write to theodora@englishpen.org.     Event highlights   8 March - International Fiction on International Women's Day An evening of readings by acclaimed international authors Martina Evans, Wioletta Greg, Xiaolu Guo, Michèle Roberts and Meike Ziervogel. More information   13 March - Wanderlust: Bakhtiyar Ali Bakhtiyar Ali will discuss his PEN-awarded novel I Stared at the Night of the City, a lyrical interpretation of contemporary Kurdistan, with his translator Kareem Abdulrahman. Buy tickets     13-16 March - Prabda Yoon on tour Tilted Axis Press are taking Prabda Yoon, the author of the PEN-awarded The Sad Part Was, on tour with his translator Mui Poopoksakul. Find out more   16 March - Imagining Futures: Jacek Dukaj and Zen Cho  In this PEN event, celebrated Polish science-fiction writer Jacek Dukaj and British-Malaysian writer Zen Cho come together to discuss ‘imagined futures’.  Buy tickets     Opportunities for translators   The next Cambridge Conversation in Translation on 6 March is about translation and censorship. Find out more   The Translation Symposium is back! Come to the Free Word Centre on 13 March for a day of discussion about literary translation. More information   Getting started in literary translation, with Paul Russell Garrett, Anne-Marie Jackson and Ros Schwartz. Book tickets   A new translation and writing prize for translations of Austrian poetry, short fiction and book extracts. Deadline: 13 March     Asymptote seeks unpublished literary fiction, literary non-fiction and poetry from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.     London Book Fair is almost upon us! Find us at the Literary Translation Centre and the English PEN literary salon.     'Even if you’re 75 years old and haven’t left the city you’ve grown up in, you have migrated through time. To me, it feels like the theme of being human is being a migrant.' - PEN Atlas is back with a Q&A with writer Mohsin Hamid.     What to read in March and always   Old but still : on sexism in literary prize culture   This Lithub series on women writers we'd love to see translated   Women's Poetry from Montenegro on Words Without Borders   Women in Translation tumblr    #ReadWomen   Copyright © 2017 English PEN, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: English PEN Free Word Centre 60 Farringdon Road London, Eng EC1R 3GA United Kingdom