Some events will be livestreamed and will be listed on the calendar.

Journalist Masha Gessen signs a book at the Leipzig Book Fair March 22, 2019, in Germany. Remember that international literature has been written twice, both by the author and by the translator.” Annelise Finegan, head of the graduate translation program at New York University and a competitor, says that “international literature allows new perspectives to emerge.

A “translation slam,” which will have translators (and ChatGPT) live translating new work and competing for audience approval of their version.

Television personality, author and culinary expert Padma Lakshmi will be part of a panel on food as a cross-cultural exchange.

A keynote lecture by Coates about attacks on freedom of expression.

A panel of Latin American writers on how identity shapes their work.A panel on journalists and writers working in exile, which includes Masha Gessen, who writes about Russia, including in the award-winning book The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.He wrote an op-ed for the New York Times titled “ I’m a Ukrainian Soldier, and I’ve Accepted my Death.” Poet and filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk will speak from New York, while her husband, Artem Chapeye, a fiction writer, participates remotely from the Chornobyl exclusion zone, where he is a private in the Defense Forces. A panel of Ukrainian authors that includes a husband and wife.Organizers of this year’s event hope to bring global perspectives to the problems of our time.

The festival is part of PEN America, an organization of writers who defend freedom of expression. Americans read ‘world literature,’ but mostly they don’t see it as something alien.” “America itself has changed so much over the last few decades,” Sharma says, that “ what used to be world literature is now just the literature of our parents and cousins. Novelist Akhil Sharma, an Indian American who teaches at Duke University and is one of the panelists, says writers love meeting other authors and readers. “Writers are looking to be in communion with others, to remind themselves of the role they play in society and that the work they do is essential to connecting us … and getting us in touch with our common humanity.”

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