Thursday, August 17, 2017 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

126 Franklin St.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/

This year, for the first time, the Translation Committee is holding a reading and discussion to mark Women in Translation Month, co-presented with WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn. The evening will showcase the work of authors and translators alike, while also shining a spotlight on gender disparity as a constraint on free expression.

As Jennifer Clement said, in 2015, when she became the first woman president of , “As a writer and activist I have advocated for those silenced by gender, race and class. Global gender censorship is escalating. It is time for PEN to lead in this area in a more visible way.”

The event stars:

, moderator; editor of Kitchen Table Translation

Bonnie Huie, translator, Notes of a Crocodile, by Qiu Miaojin

Elisabeth Jaquette, translator, The Queue, by Basma Abdel Aziz

Julia Sanches, translator, Now and at the Hour of Our Death, by Susana Moreira Marques

Full details and participant bios at PEN.