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Wednesday, May 9, 2018 – Saturday, May 12, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>
In Conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and Martin Pulcher<\/strong>
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Book Culture
536 W 112th Street
New York, NY
7:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Conversation with Izabela Barry at Brooklyn Central Library<\/strong>
Friday, May 11, 2018
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
2:00 – 4:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading and in Discussion with Antonia Lloyd-Jones at European Literature Night<\/strong>
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street
New York, NY
5:00 – 10:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szablowski<\/strong> uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground reporting–of smuggling a car into Ukraine, hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with Stalin-adoring tour guides at the Stalin Museum, sleeping in London’s Victoria Station alongside a homeless woman from Poland, and giving taxi rides to Cubans fearing for the life of Fidel Castro–provides a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dancing Bears<\/em> is Szablowski\u2019s timely American debut. He will be coming to New York for a series of events around this year\u2019s European Literature Night, an annual event celebrating works of fiction and nonfiction from across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 9, Szablowski will speak at Book Culture on 112th. Joining him will be one of Bulgaria\u2019s most beloved contemporary authors, Georgi Gospodinov<\/strong>. His novel The Physics of Sorrow <\/em>(Open Letter Books, 2015) won the Jan Michalski Prize and was praised in The New Yorker. He is currently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. Moderating will be the author and literary historian Martin Puchner<\/strong>, currently the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, please visit the Book Culture website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 11, Szablowski will speak discuss his book with librarian and Polish literature expert Izabela Barry<\/strong> at the Central Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, on Grand Army Plaza next to Prospect Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 12, Szablowski and his translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones<\/strong> will be featured guests of European Literature Night<\/strong>. ELN is an annual celebration of literature from across the continent, hosted at Bohemian National Hall. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear readings and discussions of books from 15 countries, as well as musical performances and an exhibition of visual art inspired by these works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In collaboration with the New School\u2019s Mannes School of Music and Parsons School of Design, each reading will feature a musical piece inspired by the featured book, as well as one or more work of visual art, on display in the gallery on BNH\u2019s 2nd floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evening will kick off at 5pm with a screening of two short Czech films: Adelheid<\/em> by Frantisek Vl\u00e1cil <\/strong>and Icarus XB<\/em> by Jindrich Pol\u00e1k<\/strong>. This will be followed by the opening of the gallery exhibition at 6:30pm. Readings will run from 7-9pm, with books on-sale in the BNH\u2019s main ballroom. Finally at 9, Czech artist, author and filmmaker Peter S\u00eds<\/strong> will discuss his book Train To Freedom<\/em>, accompanied by musical performances by American composer Lowell Liberman<\/strong> and by Logan Vrankovic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Szablowski <\/strong>and Lloyd-Jones<\/strong> will read from 8-9pm in Czech Center New York Gallery on the 2nd floor. Their reading will feature a performance of Jorge Tabares Garcia\u2019s String Trio<\/strong>, as well as art by Clair Gunther <\/strong>and Chase Bindner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For full details about European Literature Night, please visit the Czech Center\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witold Szablowski <\/strong>is an award-winning Polish journalist. At age twenty-five he became the youngest reporter at the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza\u2019s weekly supplement, Duzy Format, where he covered international stories in countries including Cuba, South Africa, and Iceland. His features on the problem of illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize; his reportage on the 1943 massacre of Poles in Ukraine won the Polish Press Agency\u2019s Ryszard Kapuscinski Award; and his book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City<\/em>, won the Beata Pawlak Award and an English PEN award, and was nominated for the Nike Award, Poland\u2019s most prestigious literary prize. Szablowski lives in Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonia Lloyd-Jones<\/strong> has translated works by many of Poland\u2019s leading novelists and authors of reportage, as well as crime fiction, poetry screenplays and children\u2019s books. She is a two-time winner of the Found in Translation Award and from 2015-2017 she was the co-chair of the UK\u2019s Translators Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgi Gospodinov<\/strong> (1968) is poet and writer, one of the most translated and awarded Bulgarian authors. His debut novel, Natural Novel<\/em> (1999), was published in more than 20 languages. His next novel, The Physics of Sorrow <\/em>(Open Letter Books, 2015), won the international Jan Michalski Prize 2016 and was finalist for the American PEN Translation Prize, the Best Translated Book Award (BTBA), Premio Strega Europeo, etc. The novel has been widely praised in Europe and the US. According to The New Yorker, \u201cGeorgi\u2019s real quest in The Physics of Sorrow is to find a way to live with sadness, to allow it to be a source of empathy and salutary hesitation\u2026\u201d Gospodinov has written two plays, D.J. (2004) and The Apocalypse Comes at 6 PM (2010, US premiere at the Single Carrot Theater, Baltimore, 2015). He has also written an opera libretto for Space Opera (2015, Poznan). Blind Vaysha, a short animation (dir. Theo Ushev) based on Gospodinov\u2019s short story from And Other Stories, made it to the Academy Award nominees in 2017. Gospodinov is currently a Cullman fellow at the New York Public Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Puchner<\/strong> is the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His prize-winning books cover subjects from philosophy to the arts, and his bestselling six-volume Norton Anthology of World Literature<\/em> and his HarvardX MOOC<\/em> (massive open online course) have brought four thousand years of literature to students across the globe. His most recent book, The Written World: The Power of Stories of Shape People, History, Civilization <\/em>(Random House), tells the story of literature from the invention of writing to the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Saturday, May 12, 2018\nIn Conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and Martin PulcherWednesday, May 9, 2018Book Culture536 W 112th StreetNew York, NY7:00pm\nIn Conversation with Izabela Barry at Brooklyn Central LibraryFriday, May 11, 201810 Grand Army PlazaBrooklyn, NY2:00 - 4:00pm\nReading and in Discussion with Antonia Lloyd-Jones at European Literature NightSaturday, May 12, 2018Bohemian National Hall321 East 73rd StreetNew York, NY5:00 - 10:00pm\nIn the tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szablowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria's dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground reporting--of smuggling a car into Ukraine, hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with Stalin-adoring tour guides at the Stalin Museum, sleeping in London's Victoria Station alongside a homeless woman from Poland, and giving taxi rides to Cubans fearing for the life of Fidel Castro--provides a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule.\nDancing Bears is Szablowski\u2019s timely American debut. He will be coming to New York for a series of events around this year\u2019s European Literature Night, an annual event celebrating works of fiction and nonfiction from across the continent.\nOn May 9, Szablowski will speak at Book Culture on 112th. Joining him will be one of Bulgaria\u2019s most beloved contemporary authors, Georgi Gospodinov. His novel The Physics of Sorrow (Open Letter Books, 2015) won the Jan Michalski Prize and was praised in The New Yorker. He is currently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. Moderating will be the author and literary historian Martin Puchner, currently the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.\nFor more information, please visit the Book Culture website.\nOn May 11, Szablowski will speak discuss his book with librarian and Polish literature expert Izabela Barry at the Central Branch of Brooklyn Public Library, on Grand Army Plaza next to Prospect Park.\nOn May 12, Szablowski and his translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones will be featured guests of European Literature Night. ELN is an annual celebration of literature from across the continent, hosted at Bohemian National Hall. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear readings and discussions of books from 15 countries, as well as musical performances and an exhibition of visual art inspired by these works.\nIn collaboration with the New School\u2019s Mannes School of Music and Parsons School of Design, each reading will feature a musical piece inspired by the featured book, as well as one or more work of visual art, on display in the gallery on BNH\u2019s 2nd floor.\nThe evening will kick off at 5pm with a screening of two short Czech films: Adelheid by Frantisek Vl\u00e1cil and Icarus XB by Jindrich Pol\u00e1k. This will be followed by the opening of the gallery exhibition at 6:30pm. Readings will run from 7-9pm, with books on-sale in the BNH\u2019s main ballroom. Finally at 9, Czech artist, author and filmmaker Peter S\u00eds will discuss his book Train To Freedom, accompanied by musical performances by American composer Lowell Liberman and by Logan Vrankovic.\nSzablowski and Lloyd-Jones will read from 8-9pm in Czech Center New York Gallery on the 2nd floor. Their reading will feature a performance of Jorge Tabares Garcia\u2019s String Trio, as well as art by Clair Gunther and Chase Bindner.\nFor full details about European Literature Night, please visit the Czech Center\u2019s website.\nWitold Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist. At age twenty-five he became the youngest reporter at the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza\u2019s weekly supplement, Duzy Format, where he covered international stories in countries including Cuba, South Africa, and Iceland. His features on the problem of illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize; his reportage on the 1943 massacre of Poles in Ukraine won the Polish Press Agency\u2019s Ryszard Kapuscinski Award; and his book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won the Beata Pawlak Award and an English PEN award, and was nominated for the Nike Award, Poland\u2019s most prestigious literary prize. Szablowski lives in Warsaw.\nAntonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland\u2019s leading novelists and authors of reportage, as well as crime fiction, poetry screenplays and children\u2019s books. She is a two-time winner of the Found in Translation Award and from 2015-2017 she was the co-chair of the UK\u2019s Translators Association.\nGeorgi Gospodinov (1968) is poet and writer, one of the most translated and awarded Bulgarian authors. His debut novel, Natural Novel (1999), was published in more than 20 languages. His next novel, The Physics of Sorrow (Open Letter Books, 2015), won the international Jan Michalski Prize 2016 and was finalist for the American PEN Translation Prize, the Best Translated Book Award (BTBA), Premio Strega Europeo, etc. The novel has been widely praised in Europe and the US. According to The New Yorker, \u201cGeorgi\u2019s real quest in The Physics of Sorrow is to find a way to live with sadness, to allow it to be a source of empathy and salutary hesitation\u2026\u201d Gospodinov has written two plays, D.J. (2004) and The Apocalypse Comes at 6 PM (2010, US premiere at the Single Carrot Theater, Baltimore, 2015). He has also written an opera libretto for Space Opera (2015, Poznan). Blind Vaysha, a short animation (dir. Theo Ushev) based on Gospodinov\u2019s short story from And Other Stories, made it to the Academy Award nominees in 2017. Gospodinov is currently a Cullman fellow at the New York Public Library.\nMartin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His prize-winning books cover subjects from philosophy to the arts, and his bestselling six-volume Norton Anthology of World Literature and his HarvardX MOOC (massive open online course) have brought four thousand years of literature to students across the globe. 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