If you have a specific accessibility request, please email at least two weeks before the program date.In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul and Youssef.
This program will be available with closed captions. You will need a device with audio and/or video and an internet/cellular connection to join. The link will be sent to you by email approximately one day before the event. This event will take place over Zoom. You must register with your email address in order to receive the Zoom link to participate. This program will be conducted in English.
With his first novel, The Night, he won the 2016 Paris Rive Gauche Prize, the Critics Award in Venezuela and the 2019 Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize. In 2014, his story "Emuntorios" was included in Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America, volume number 46 of the prestigious magazine McSweeney's. In 2013 he was a guest writer on the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2007 he was invited to join the Bogotá39 group, which brings together the best Latin American narrators under thirty-nine years old.
He has received various awards for his stories both inside and outside Venezuela. Rodrigo Blanco Calderón is a writer and editor. Zain Khalid has been published in the New Yorker, the Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. “Swallowing Mercury”, her first prose book translated to English by Eliza Marciniak, was longlisted for the 2017 the Man Booker International Prize. She is an accomplished poet, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Wioletta Greg – is a Polish-British writer living in the United Kingdom since 2006. Panelists will discuss their work, the relationship between culture and language, and the impact of literature in translation. Join us for the panel discussion, “Cultures in Translation,” featuring authors Wioletta Greg, Zain Khalid and Rodrigo Blanco Calderón. Discover what our patrons are reading in different languages, resources the Library offers, free online events, book recommendations, and more. A virtual event on Thursday, April 27, 2023, from 1 - 2pm EDT The New York Public Library’s World Literature Festival celebrates books and writers from around the world and reflects the languages spoken in our communities.
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