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Words with Writers Friday, March 3 at 6:00 PM Austrian Cultural Forum New York 11 E 52Nd Street, New York, NY 10022 The theme of the 2017 festival, curated by Peter Blackstock, senior editor at Grove Atlantic, is QUEER AS VOLK. As queer people face a hazardous political climate both in the United States and in Europe, stories about the LGBTQ community become all the more critical. As do the questions: How do queer stories reach readers? To what extent is gay writing still subversive? And how do we ensure that the stories of LGBTQ people are told in a time of rising reactionary sentiment? The works of fiction featured at this year’s festival celebrate the diversity of LGBTQ experiences. From the coming-of-age story of a young bisexual man living in the Black Forest, to a novel exploring the lives of lesbian and gay people in Austria during the Nazi period, to the tale of a Swiss couple reeling from a positive HIV diagnosis, the featured works form a cross-section of the LGBTQ spectrum. Simultaneously joyous, heart- wrenching, sexual and radical, these books showcase queer experiences with deep emotion and great literary flair. Words With Writers Friday, March 3 at 6:00 PM Austrian Cultural Forum New York 11 E 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022 Selected students from Columbia University, Pratt Institute, New York University, Vassar College, and Hunter College take on FNL authors in a lightning round of literary interviews. Featuring all six German-language authors and moderated by festival curator Peter Blackstock, senior editor at Grove Atlantic. Featuring authors Fabian Hischmann, Antje Rávic Strubel, Jürgen Bauer, Marlen Schachinger, Simon Froehling, and Zora del Buono as well as students Tibo Halsberghe, Isabelle Burden, Sade Murphy, Marie- Luise Goldmann, Andrew Willett, and Kathriana Kengni; moderated by festival curator Peter Blackstock. With special thanks to Professor Susan Bernofsky of Columbia University for her integral role in the organization of this event! The event is free of charge and in English. RSVPs are required due to limited seating. Please register here. Translation at the Margins Saturday, March 4 at 12:00 PM Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 Join Festival Neue Literatur for an intimate conversation about literature in translation with NYC’s celebrated literary editors, translators, and writers, who will discuss the importance of translating LGBTQ voices, voices of people of color, voices of women, and voices of writers from countries recently affected by the U.S. immigration ban. Panelists: 1. John Keene 2. Rivka Galchen and Susan Bernofsky 3. Sara Khalili and Michel Moushabek 4. John Freeman and Valeria Luiselli Moderated by translator and Guggenheim Fellow Tess Lewis. The event is free of charge and in English. RSVPs are required due to limited seating. Please register here. Born This Way: Writing the Personal Saturday, March 4 at 6:00 PM powerHouse Books 28 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 As Virginia Woolf put it in A Room of One’s Own: “Sometimes women do like women.” Bringing queer stories to a straight world is a task that often falls to LGBTQ writers. But should LGBTQ writers feel an obligation to write fiction inspired by their own experiences? This panel explores the burdens of representation and the role of personal and literary influences, showing how LGBTQ lives come into literature. Featuring Zora del Buono, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Jürgen Bauer, Darryl Pinckney, and moderated by Geoff Mak of The Offing Magazine. The event is free of charge and in English. RSVPs are required due to limited seating. Please register here. The Author's Voice Sunday, March 5 at 2:00 PM Deutsches Haus at NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003 The six German-language authors of Festival Neue Literatur pair up with New York City actors to give a sampling from their work, providing a taste of new writing from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Featuring Jürgen Bauer, Zora del Buono, Simon Froehling, Fabian Hischmann, Marlen Schachinger, and Antje Rávic Strubel, and moderated by the festival curator Peter Blackstock. English excerpts read by actors. The event is free of charge and in English. RSVPs are required due to limited seating. Please email [email protected]. Silence Is Violence: LGBTQ Writing in a Fracturing Political Climate Sunday, March 5 at 6:00 PM McNally Jackson Books 52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 Larry Kramer once said: “I don’t consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.” This panel promises a lively discussion of the intersection between LGBTQ writing and politics, from HIV/AIDS activism, to class and race identity, to gay persecution both historical and contemporary, exploring what it means to be a sexual minority in today’s political climate. Featuring Marlen Schachinger, Simon Froehling, Fabian Hischmann, Francine Prose, and moderated by William Johnson of Lambda Literary. The event is free of charge and in English. RSVPs are required due to limited seating. Please register here. Participants Jürgen Bauer Born in 1981, Jürgen Bauer works as a writer and journalist in Vienna. He majored in theater studies and published his book No Escape, about the theatre director Barrie Kosky, in 2008. He was a participant in the New Writing program of the Burgtheater Vienna. In 2013, he published his first novel, Das Fenster zur Welt; his latest novel, Was wir fürchten, was published in 2015. He was a writer in residence at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin in the summer of 2015. Please read an excerpt from Das Fenster zur Welt in a translation by Marshall Yarbrough here. Events: Words With Writers at Austrian Cultural Forum New YorkBorn This Way: Writing the Personal at powerHouse BooksThe Author's Voice at Deutsches Haus at NYU Marlen Schachinger Marlen Schachinger was born in Upper Austria in 1970, and currently lives and works as a freelance writer in Upper Austria and Vienna. She is the recipient of a number of literature awards and grants, most recently the 2016 Upper Austrian Honorary Prize as well as LiterarMechana’s anniversary grant. She has published prose, poetry and essays in national and international literary magazines. Since 2000 Schachinger has written a number of books, the most recent of which include Martiniloben (2016), Unzeit (2016), Albors Asche (2015), denn ihre Werke folgen ihnen nach (2013), and ¡Leben! (2013). She also participated in Marlen Schachinger & Betty Paoli: Women Authors Celebrating Women Authors and wrote the textbook Werdegang (2014). Her recent anthologies include übergrenzen (2015). Please read an excerpt from ¡Leben! in a translation by Tess Lewis here. www.marlen-schachinger.com Events: Words With Writers at Austrian Cultural Forum New YorkThe Author's Voice at Deutsches Haus at NYUSilence Is Violence: LGBTQ Writing in a Fracturing Political Climate at McNally Jackson Books Fabian Hischmann Fabian Hischmann studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, and is now based in Berlin. He has worked as a dramaturg in theaters in Heidelberg and Freiburg. While his short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, Am Ende schmeißen wir mit Gold (2014) is his debut novel. The coming-of-age story follows a neurotic twentysomething, Max, as he confronts the vagaries of his sexual orientation, pursuing both a man and a woman. At the same time, it explores questions of mourning, intergenerational discord, and the transformation of identity. It was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2014. Please read an excerpt from Am Ende schmeißen wir mit Gold in a translation by Tim Mohr here. Events: Words With Writers at Austrian Cultural Forum New YorkThe Author's Voice at Deutsches Haus at NYUSilence Is Violence: LGBTQ Writing in a Fracturing Political Climate at McNally Jackson Books Antje Rávic Strubel Born in Potsdam, Antje Rávic Strubel studied American and German literature and psychology at Potsdam University and New York University. An author and essayist, her novels include: In den Wäldern des menschlichen Herzens (S.Fischer 2016), Sturz der Tage in die Nacht (S.Fischer 2011), which was nominated for the German Book Prize, Kältere Schichten der Luft (S. Fischer, 2007), which was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Award and won the Herman Hesse Award and Rheingau Literature Award; Tupolew 134 (C.H. Beck, 2004), for which Strubel received the Marburg Literature Award and the Bremen Promotional Literature Award; Fremd Gehen: Ein Nachtstück (DTV, 2002) and Unter Schnee (DTV, 2001) which was translated into English under the title Snowed Under (Red Hen Press, 2008) and awarded with the Academy of Arts Award. She is the German translator of Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking (Claasen, 2006) and a compilation of essays entitled We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (Claasen, 2008) as well as Blue Nights (Claasen, 2010). She is also the German translator of Lucia Berlin’s Manual for Cleaning Women (Arche, 2015) and the upcoming second volume of her works (Arche, 2017). Her translation from Swedish of Karolina Ramqvists Vita Staden was published in 2016 (Ullstein). She teaches regularly at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut at the University of Leipzig, taught Master Classes in writing at the Berliner Festspiele and the Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel as well as workshops in Creative Writing and Translation at UCI Irvine, UCONN and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland. Please read an excerpt from In den Wäldern des menschlichen Herzens in a translation by Zaia Alexander here. www.antjestrubel.de Events: Words With Writers at Austrian Cultural Forum New YorkBorn This Way: Writing the Personal at powerHouse BooksThe Author's Voice at Deutsches Haus at NYU Zora del Buono Zora del Buono was born in Zurich in 1962 and grew up either there as well as in Bari (Italy).
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