Summer Readings

What are we going to read in the summer?

For our July 26 meeting we’ll be reading best-selling Croatian author Dubravka Ugrešić’s highly acclaimed novel Fox, and joined by translator Ellen Elias-Bursać (Open Press Books, 2018). 

On August 30 we’ll be discussing Romanian author Mircea Cărtarescu’s novel Blinding, Book One, and joined by the book’s translator Sean Cotter (Archipelago Books, 2013). 

Then on September 27 we’ll explore Book Two of Slovenian author Lojze Kovačič’s wartime trilogy Newcomers, translated by Michael Biggins (Archipelago Books, 2020).

(A snapshot from zoom discussion on Lojze Kovačič’s Book One. May 3, 2020)

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Other books in the English translation that our group has recently discussed have included 

2018 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and Other Times (from Polish),
2019 Austrian Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke’s A Sorrow beyond Dreams (from German),
2009 Nobelist Herta Müller’s (Romania/Germany) The Land of Green Plums,
a novel by Romanian author Max Blecher and, most recently, on June 28, Bulgarian prose writer Georgi Gospodinov’s Physics of Sorrow, for which the author’s American translator Angela Rodel was able to join us from Bulgaria as our featured discussant.

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