S171. Action Books's First Decade: An International Reading

Room 101 D&E, Level 1
Saturday, April 11, 2015
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

For ten years, the midwest press Action Books has been ardently advocating for international writing, publishing both US-based and global authors in translation and serving as a raucous agitator for translation in the process. This event celebrates Action Books with readings by five authors of international renown, from Chile and Mexico, and Korea, including their translators.


Participants

Moderator:

Johannes Goransson is the author of five books of poetry and the translator of several volumes of Swedish poetry, including most recently Aase Berg's Dark Matter and Transfer Fat. He is an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame, and the editor of Action Books and the online journal Action, Yes.

Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News Is Exciting and the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. She also translates contemporary Korean women’s poetry and has received the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Her most recent translation of Kim Hyesoon is Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream.

 

Valerie Mejer is a poet and painter and the author of the poetry collections Rain of the Future, and This Blue Novel. Her books in Spanish include Cuaderno de Edimburgo; de la ola, el atajoGeografías de NieblaEsta Novela Azul; and Ante el Ojo de Cíclope.

Daniel Borzutzky's most recent book is The Book of Interfering Bodies. His translations include books of poetry by Raúl Zurita and Jaime Luis Huenún's Port Trakl. He teaches at Wright College in Chicago and is the recipient of grants from the NEA and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund. 

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