Fantastic faculty news: Susan Bernofsky has won a major translation prize! Info below:
Awarded every other year, the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis for 2012 goes to Susan Bernofsky. The jury praised not only her translation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, but also her other prose translations from German, calling her work sensitive, with a sure sense of style.
The Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis alternates biannually between a literary journal and a translator of the Nobel Prize-winning Swiss author. This year's cermemony, to be held in Calw on July 2, Hesse's birthday, comes with a 15,000 Euro purse.
Congratulations to Susan!
http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/archives/395-Susan-Bernofsky-wins-Calwer-Hermann-Hesse-Preis.html
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
TURNSTYLE is back with Ben Lerner and Michelle Valladares and...
Please join for the first reading of the 2012 season of Turnstyle reading series. Turnstyle is a mixer showcasing the talent from CUNY's four MFA programs: Queens, City College, Hunter, and Brooklyn. Each night, students from each campus will read alongside two CUNY MFA faculty. The readings are popular, and tend to be packed; it is wise to come before the show starts to get a seat!
Here are the details:
6:30-8:30 @ the CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Avenue, 34th Street
All readings are FREE and open to the public
MFA Candidate Readers:
Masha Udensiva-Brenner, Nathan Schiller, Katie Byrum, Kim Davies, Charles Logan, Sean Hembrick
With:
Ben Lerner, Michelle Valladares
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We hope to see you there! Feel free to spread this invitation widely.
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TURNSTYLE is co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities… All a part of The City University of New York.
Here are the details:
6:30-8:30 @ the CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Avenue, 34th Street
All readings are FREE and open to the public
MFA Candidate Readers:
Masha Udensiva-Brenner, Nathan Schiller, Katie Byrum, Kim Davies, Charles Logan, Sean Hembrick
With:
Ben Lerner, Michelle Valladares
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We hope to see you there! Feel free to spread this invitation widely.
Check out our Facebook Page
Check out our Wordpress Site
TURNSTYLE is co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities… All a part of The City University of New York.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Poet Matthea Harvey Reads and Talks about Her Work
Wednesday February 15, 6:30pm, Klapper 710
Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. Modern Life also received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She has also written two books for children--The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel) and the forthcoming Cecil the Pet Glacier, illustrated by Giselle Potter. An illustrated erasure, titled Of Lamb, with images by Amy Jean Porter, was published by McSweeney's in 2010. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
Festival Neue Literatur
The festival will take place from Feb. 10 - 12 (check website for venues), and will feature six younger German-language authors along with Chris Adrian, Francisco Goldman and Daniel Kehlmann. Our visiting prof, Susan Bernofsky is serving as the festival's curator this year and will present the work of these outstanding writers, most of whom have never been translated into English before.
More information about the festival, including profiles of the featured authors and sample translations, can be found on the festival website, www.festivalneueliteratur.org
More information about the festival, including profiles of the featured authors and sample translations, can be found on the festival website, www.festivalneueliteratur.org
Oh, Bernice!
The *Oh, Bernice! Writers Collective* happily invites you to attend our second reading. The first reading was such a huge success we decided to do it all over again (every month for that matter)!
When: 7:30 pm February 18
Where: Cafe Marlene
(www.cafemarlene.com)
41-11 49th Street
Sunnyside, NY
(Closest to the 52nd Street 7 train. )
Who:
Brian Kim
Deborah Fried-Rubin
Wayne Moreland
Tyler Rivenbark
Sarah Stetson
... Jolie Hale will emcee and be as charming as ever.
When: 7:30 pm February 18
Where: Cafe Marlene
(www.cafemarlene.com)
41-11 49th Street
Sunnyside, NY
(Closest to the 52nd Street 7 train. )
Who:
Brian Kim
Deborah Fried-Rubin
Wayne Moreland
Tyler Rivenbark
Sarah Stetson
... Jolie Hale will emcee and be as charming as ever.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
POETRY READING: Nicole Cooley and Tatiana Alvarado
Sunday, January 15 @ 2:00 p.m. - QUEENS Central Library (Auditorium)
Nicole Cooley is from New Orleans and is now a Professor of English at Queens College where she directs the new MFA Program in creative writing and literary translation. She has published five books, most recently the poetry collections Breach (Louisiana State University Press) and Milk Dress (Alice James Books).
Tatiana Alvarado grew up in Astoria where she currently resides.
She obtained her BA in both Political Science and English in 2009 and an MFA degree in creative writing--both at Queens College.
FOR POETS
Nicole Cooley
Tatiana Alvarado
OPEN MIC
Location and info:
89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432
F train to 169th Street;
also check borough bus routes for those going to 165th Street Bus Terminal.
www.queenslibrary.org
(718) 990-0700
Nicole Cooley is from New Orleans and is now a Professor of English at Queens College where she directs the new MFA Program in creative writing and literary translation. She has published five books, most recently the poetry collections Breach (Louisiana State University Press) and Milk Dress (Alice James Books).
Tatiana Alvarado grew up in Astoria where she currently resides.
She obtained her BA in both Political Science and English in 2009 and an MFA degree in creative writing--both at Queens College.
FOR POETS
Nicole Cooley
Tatiana Alvarado
OPEN MIC
Location and info:
89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432
F train to 169th Street;
also check borough bus routes for those going to 165th Street Bus Terminal.
www.queenslibrary.org
(718) 990-0700
Thursday, December 15, 2011
NIGHT OF NOIR ...
QC MFA Alum, Tejas Desai has organized Queens Noir...
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Time
6:00pm until 7:30pm
Join us for a literary celebration featuring noir writers Denis Hamill, Shailly Agnihotri and Ken Wishnia as they discuss their craft and writing about Queens!
Crimes occur every day behind the purview of newspapers in the most diverse county in America and the melting p...ot of the world, and they need writers to bring them to the forefront. What happens behind that riverfront home in Bayside, that bodega in Corona, or that Indian matrimonial service in Jackson Heights? The authors will read from their stories in Queens Noir, a collection published by Akashic Books, and talk about their creative and research processes.
This event is a collaboration between the biweekly Writer's Workshop at the Bayside Community Library and Neighborhood Word, an Asian-American Writers Workshop programming series that brings Asian American writers and artists to Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx—the boroughs most Asian-American New Yorkers call home.
Copies of Queens Noir are available at the library for checkout with QL library card. Refreshments will be served, and admission is free and open to everyone.
Moderator Tejas Desai is an Adult Services Librarian and conducts the Writer's Workshop at the Bayside Community Library in Queens. He holds a MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation from CUNY-Queens College and has won the Wesleyan Fiction Award. He writes novels, short stories and plays and acted in the film version of Tao Lin's surreal novel Eeeee eee eeee. Though he travels frequently, he was born, raised and lives in Queens.
Denis Hamill was born and raised in Brooklyn. He attended public high schools and CUNY. He has written for The Village Voice, NY Newsday, and currently writes a column twice a week for the NY Daily News. He has appeared on Conan O’Brien, The O’Reilly Factor, Good Day New York, Sam Roberts, The Early Show, The History Chanel, and Leonard Lopate. He is the author of ten novels, most recently “Sins of Two Fathers”, “Empty Stockings” and “Ten Spot.” An original screenplay he wrote, “Under New Management”, is currently airing on Showtime. He lives in Queens.
Shailly Agnihotri is an award-winning independent filmmaker living and working in New York. Her feature length documentary examining the suicide rate amongst US soldiers deployed in Iraq, Three Soldiers, was fancast movie of the week and played in festivals throughout the United States. Ms.Agnihotri is a practicing public defense attorney. Her newest project is full length play about her experiences in the criminal justice system entitled American Tune.
Kenneth Wishnia’s novels include 23 Shades of Black, an Edgar Allan Poe Award and Anthony Award finalist; Soft Money, a Library Journal Best Mystery of the Year; Red House, a Washington Post Book World “Rave” Book of the Year; and The Fifth Servant, an Indie Notable selection, winner of a Premio Letterario ADEI-WIZO, and a finalist for the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award (Macavity Awards). His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Queens Noir, Long Island Noir, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail, and elsewhere. He teaches writing, literature and other deviant forms of thought at Suffolk Community College on Long Island.See More
Queens Library at Bayside
212-19 Northern Boulevard, Bayside, NY 11361-3341
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Time
6:00pm until 7:30pm
Join us for a literary celebration featuring noir writers Denis Hamill, Shailly Agnihotri and Ken Wishnia as they discuss their craft and writing about Queens!
Crimes occur every day behind the purview of newspapers in the most diverse county in America and the melting p...ot of the world, and they need writers to bring them to the forefront. What happens behind that riverfront home in Bayside, that bodega in Corona, or that Indian matrimonial service in Jackson Heights? The authors will read from their stories in Queens Noir, a collection published by Akashic Books, and talk about their creative and research processes.
This event is a collaboration between the biweekly Writer's Workshop at the Bayside Community Library and Neighborhood Word, an Asian-American Writers Workshop programming series that brings Asian American writers and artists to Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx—the boroughs most Asian-American New Yorkers call home.
Copies of Queens Noir are available at the library for checkout with QL library card. Refreshments will be served, and admission is free and open to everyone.
Moderator Tejas Desai is an Adult Services Librarian and conducts the Writer's Workshop at the Bayside Community Library in Queens. He holds a MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation from CUNY-Queens College and has won the Wesleyan Fiction Award. He writes novels, short stories and plays and acted in the film version of Tao Lin's surreal novel Eeeee eee eeee. Though he travels frequently, he was born, raised and lives in Queens.
Denis Hamill was born and raised in Brooklyn. He attended public high schools and CUNY. He has written for The Village Voice, NY Newsday, and currently writes a column twice a week for the NY Daily News. He has appeared on Conan O’Brien, The O’Reilly Factor, Good Day New York, Sam Roberts, The Early Show, The History Chanel, and Leonard Lopate. He is the author of ten novels, most recently “Sins of Two Fathers”, “Empty Stockings” and “Ten Spot.” An original screenplay he wrote, “Under New Management”, is currently airing on Showtime. He lives in Queens.
Shailly Agnihotri is an award-winning independent filmmaker living and working in New York. Her feature length documentary examining the suicide rate amongst US soldiers deployed in Iraq, Three Soldiers, was fancast movie of the week and played in festivals throughout the United States. Ms.Agnihotri is a practicing public defense attorney. Her newest project is full length play about her experiences in the criminal justice system entitled American Tune.
Kenneth Wishnia’s novels include 23 Shades of Black, an Edgar Allan Poe Award and Anthony Award finalist; Soft Money, a Library Journal Best Mystery of the Year; Red House, a Washington Post Book World “Rave” Book of the Year; and The Fifth Servant, an Indie Notable selection, winner of a Premio Letterario ADEI-WIZO, and a finalist for the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award (Macavity Awards). His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Queens Noir, Long Island Noir, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail, and elsewhere. He teaches writing, literature and other deviant forms of thought at Suffolk Community College on Long Island.See More
Queens Library at Bayside
212-19 Northern Boulevard, Bayside, NY 11361-3341
**PARTY AND LAUNCH**
MFA holiday party/Ozone Park journal launch!
Friday, December 16th
7 pm
Terraza 7 Train Cafe
40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, NY 11373
MTA: take the 7 to 82 St or the E/F/M/R to Jackson Hts/Roosevelt Ave.
For the open mic portion, please feel free to bring your own work to read! Also, don't forget to bring a book for the book swap (and to wrap that book!).
**Save these dates for QC Translation Symposium**
Interwoven Worlds:
A Symposium Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
A Queens College Trends in Translation Event
Cosponsored by
The MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation
and Archipelago Books
To celebrate the new collaboration between Queens College and Archipelago Books, the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation presents a one-day symposium on writing and translation. This symposium, which forms part of the Queens College Year of Turkey, will present writers and translators featured in recent Archipelago Books publications as well as others working in the literatures of Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Israel.
Archipelago Books, founded in 2004 and based in Brooklyn, is currently one of the foremost publishers of literature in translation. Archipelago books have received prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Academy of American Poets Translation Award, and the French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Translation Prize, and have been selected as an NPR Pick for Best Foreign Fiction of the Year. Archipelago’s list of authors includes prominent writers translated from Turkish, Polish, Bengali, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Basque, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Icelandic and Arabic.
The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College is one of only two MFA programs in the country to offer a track in literary translation. Further, students specializing in all branches of creative writing are encouraged to study translation, creating a real community of writers who relish diversity and global connections.
Schedule draft*
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Reading by MFA Students, introduced by Nicole Cooley
12:00 p.m. - l:00 p.m. Lunch break
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Workshop: Editing Translations, introduced by Susan Bernofsky
Participants
Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Books)
Edwin Frank (New York Review Books Classics)
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Panel 2: The Politics of Translation – On Navigating Cultural (Mis)understandings
Participants
Aron Aji (Turkish)
Sara Khalili (Persian)
Barbara Harshav (Hebrew)
Roger Sedarat, moderator
5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Panel 3: The Writer as Translator – Multilingual Writer/Translators on Cross-Pollinations in Their Work
Participants
Sinan Antoon (Arabic/Iraq - translator of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence [Arabic/Palestinian])
Murat Nemet-Nejat (Turkish)
Ammiel Alcalay (Hebrew/Department of Classical Middle Eastern and Arabic Languages, Queens College)
Susan Bernofsky, moderator
6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Light Dinner for Participants
8:00 p.m.
Keynote Presentation: Elias Khoury (Arabic/Lebanon): A Writer’s Journey
Followed by a wine reception and book signing.
*NOTE: this is the preliminary schedule. Check closer to date for update.
A Symposium Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
A Queens College Trends in Translation Event
Cosponsored by
The MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation
and Archipelago Books
To celebrate the new collaboration between Queens College and Archipelago Books, the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation presents a one-day symposium on writing and translation. This symposium, which forms part of the Queens College Year of Turkey, will present writers and translators featured in recent Archipelago Books publications as well as others working in the literatures of Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Israel.
Archipelago Books, founded in 2004 and based in Brooklyn, is currently one of the foremost publishers of literature in translation. Archipelago books have received prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Academy of American Poets Translation Award, and the French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Translation Prize, and have been selected as an NPR Pick for Best Foreign Fiction of the Year. Archipelago’s list of authors includes prominent writers translated from Turkish, Polish, Bengali, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Basque, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Icelandic and Arabic.
The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College is one of only two MFA programs in the country to offer a track in literary translation. Further, students specializing in all branches of creative writing are encouraged to study translation, creating a real community of writers who relish diversity and global connections.
Schedule draft*
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Reading by MFA Students, introduced by Nicole Cooley
12:00 p.m. - l:00 p.m. Lunch break
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Workshop: Editing Translations, introduced by Susan Bernofsky
Participants
Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Books)
Edwin Frank (New York Review Books Classics)
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Panel 2: The Politics of Translation – On Navigating Cultural (Mis)understandings
Participants
Aron Aji (Turkish)
Sara Khalili (Persian)
Barbara Harshav (Hebrew)
Roger Sedarat, moderator
5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Panel 3: The Writer as Translator – Multilingual Writer/Translators on Cross-Pollinations in Their Work
Participants
Sinan Antoon (Arabic/Iraq - translator of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence [Arabic/Palestinian])
Murat Nemet-Nejat (Turkish)
Ammiel Alcalay (Hebrew/Department of Classical Middle Eastern and Arabic Languages, Queens College)
Susan Bernofsky, moderator
6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Light Dinner for Participants
8:00 p.m.
Keynote Presentation: Elias Khoury (Arabic/Lebanon): A Writer’s Journey
Followed by a wine reception and book signing.
*NOTE: this is the preliminary schedule. Check closer to date for update.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
***Another MFA Theater Event!!***
Play Development Lab, our collaboration with the QC theater department, will be held on campus in King 115 on Thurs Dec 8 at 6:30pm, It will feature readings of scenes by current MFA students Ilaria Papini, Jonathan Karpinos, Nancy Ramos and Panagiota Lilikaki.
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