Během Evropské noci literatury bude představeno jedenáct knih z deseti evropských zemí za účasti samotných autorů, překladatelů a herců. Večer se bude konat 22. listopadu 2021 od 18 do 23 hodin. Přehled účastníků a prezentovaných knih přinášíme zde.
Event Hashtag #ELN_NY2021
AUSTRIA
Stefan Kutzenberger (author)
Book: Jokerman
Genre: Novel
Publisher/ Date: Piper Verlag, 2020
Available in U.S.: No
Stefan Kutzenberger, born 1971 in Linz, lives in Vienna as a writer, curator and literary scholar. Numerous publications on autofiction, art and culture in Vienna around 1900 and on the literary interrelation between European and Latin American literature. Since 1996, diverse international art projects. Two novels published so far (2018: “Friedinger”, 2020: “Jokerman”).
BULGARIA
Alek Popov (author)
Book: Mission Turan
Genre: Novel
Publisher/ Date: June 2021
Available in U.S.: No
Alek Popov is the author of several novels: Mission London (Istros Books, 2014), The Black Box (Peter Owen Publishers, 2015), The Palaveev Sisters in the Storm of History, The Palaveev Sisters on the Road to the New World. He is among the most translated and read Bulgarian writers with more than 40 editions published worldwide. Mission Turan is his latest novel.
THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Véronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol (translators)
Book: City of Torment by Daniela Hodrová
Genre: Novel
Publisher/ Date: Jantar Publishing / March 2022
Available in the U.S.: March 2022
Véronique Firkusny has worked as a translator from French, Italian and German and currently translates primarily from Czech into English. Recent publications include works by Kateřina Tučková and Daniela Hodrová, as well as assorted articles and essays. Firkusny also coaches opera singers in Czech diction and serves as the Executive Director of the Avery Fisher Artist Program. (Photo credit: Steve J. Sherman)
Elena Sokol is Professor Emerita of Russian Studies at The College of Wooster (Ohio). She is the author of Russian Poetry for Children (Univ. of Tennessee Press), as well as articles on the prose of Czech women writers of the post-89 era, including Hodrová. Prague has been her second home since 2004. (Photo credit: Hannah Samuell)
HUNGARY
Sándor Halmosi (author)
Books: Decameron57, Everness80, The Dual Nature of Silence, Apocrypha, Meltdown
Genre: Poetry
Publisher/ Date: Various
Available in the U.S.: Decameron87 and The Dual Nature of Silence
Sándor Halmosi (1971), Hungarian poet, literary translator, editor, publisher and mathematician. Besides all his literary activities he gives presentations on tradition, poetry, language, and symbols. He is member of the Hungarian PEN Club (Budapest) and of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (EASAL, Paris). He published a literary manifesto in February 2020, with the title Ora et labora. Crying-out for Pure Literature. His poems are translated into many languages.
ITALY
Edoardo Ballerini (actor)
Book: Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies: An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present
Genre: Poetry
Publisher/ Date: University of Toronto Press/ June 2017
Available in the U.S.: yes
Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publishers Association’s Best Male Narrator Audie Award, and the only narrator to be profiled by The New York Times. He has recorded over 300 audiobooks, from the unabridged The Hebrew Bible to modern best-sellers. He is also the co-creator of the Audible Original The Angel of Rome. On screen, Edoardo is best known for his work in "The Sopranos" and the indie cult favorite "Dinner Rush."
POLAND
Megan Thomas (translator)
Book: The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
Genre: Novel
Publisher/ Date: Northwestern University Press/ September 2020
Notable: Winner of the 2021 Found in Translation Award
Available in the U.S.: yes
Megan Thomas lives in Ann Arbor and is, with Ewa Malachowska-Pasek, the translator of Zofia Nalkowska's The Romance of Teresa Hennert and Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz's The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma. She is a specialist in public elementary education in high-poverty communities.
Sean Gasper Bye (translator)
Book: The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch
Genre: Novel
Publisher/ Date: Amazon Crossing/ April 2020
Notable: One of 2020’s “Best Fiction in Translation”
Available in the U.S.: yes
Sean Gasper Bye is a translator of Polish literature based in Philadelphia. He has been a winner of the EBRD Literary Prize and the Aymptote Close Approximations Prize, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow. He is currently Translator-in-Residence at Princeton University.
PORTUGAL
Hugo dos Santos (translator)
Book: A Child in Ruins by José Luís Peixoto (collection)
Genre: Poetry
Publisher/ Date: Writ Large Press / June 2016
Notable: First English translation
Available in U.S.: yes
Hugo dos Santos is a Luso-American writer, editor, and translator. He is the author of Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), a collection of Newark stories, and the translator of A Child in Ruins (Writ Large Press, 2016), the collected poems of José Luís Peixoto, which was a staff pick at the Paris Review Daily. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and won a Write Well Award. Hugo is a co-founder of the Brick City Collective and is associate editor at DMQ Review.
ROMANIA
Alta Ifland (author)
Book: The Wife Who Wasn’t
Genre: Novel
Publisher/ Date: New Europe Books / May 2021
Notable: New release
Available in the U.S.: yes
Alta Ifland was born in Romania and came to the US in 1991. She worked as book a reviewer, writer and literary translator. She wrote two collections of prose poems, Voice of ice and The Snail’s Song, and two books of short stories, Elegy for a Fabulous World and Death-in-a-Box. Ifland’s novel, The Wife Who Wasn’t was released in 2021.
SLOVAKIA
Katarina Vizina (actor)
Book: The Bloody Sonnets by Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
Genre: Poetry
Notable: 100th anniversary of the author’s death; the most significant work of poetry in Slovak literature (anti-war)
Available in the U.S.: no
Katarina Vizina, native of Bratislava, Slovakia, holds an MA in Musical Theater from Janacek Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Brno, Czech Republic and an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College, CUNY. Katarina has performed in plays, musicals, one woman shows, cabarets, sketch comedy, radio shows, movies, and countless voiceover spots. She sings and performs in English, Slovak, Czech, German and Russian.
SPAIN
Kirmen Uribe (author)
Book: Bilbao-New York-Bilbao
Genre: Novel
Publisher/ Date: Coffee House Press/ Spring 2022
Notable: Coming in English in 2022, winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature
Kirmen Uribe is one of the most relevant and writers of his generation in Spain. Uribe won Spain's National Prize for Literature for his first novel, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao. His works have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among many other journals. He was selected for the Iowa International Writers Program in 2017 and was awarded the New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship for 2018-2019. He is now based in New York City, where he teaches Creative Writing at the New York University.
