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Panel Discussion
World Voices - Mixed Media: Writers on Their Languages
Writers are in the service of language itself and the specific language of their work. Writers in Basque, Korean, Hebrew, Russian, English, and Serbo-Croatian will pay tribute to what is unique and specific about working in each language.
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Boris Akunin (Georgia, 1956)
Boris Akunin was born in the Republic of Georgia in 1956. A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, Akunin published his first detective stories in 1998...
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Bernardo Atxaga (Basque Country, 1951)
Bernardo Atxaga was born in Asteasu, Guipúzcoa, in 1951.Atxaga is a poet and novelist, and writes both in Basque and in Spanish. He published his first book of poems Ziutateak (The Cities)...
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Raymond Federman (France/United States, 1928)
Raymond Federman was born in France in 1928. He emigrated to the United States in 1947. He has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and SUNY Buffalo, where he was...
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Yiyun Li (China, 1972)
Yiyun Li was born in Beijing in 1972. She came to the United States to study medical science in 1996 and began to publish in English in 2003. She is the author of A Thousand Years of Good...
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Agi Mishol (Hungary/Israel, 1947)
Agi Mishol was born in Hungary in 1947. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Mishol immigrated to Israel with her parents at the age of four. She has published 10 books of poetry including her...
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Hwang Sok-Yong (South Korea, 1943)
Hwang Sok-Yong was born in 1943. A former laborer and activist, he is also a Vietnam War veteran and political dissident. In 1993, Hwang was sentenced to seven years in prison for...
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Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia/The Netherlands, 1949)
Dubravka Ugresic was born in 1949. Ugresic is the author of several novels, short story collections, and essays. Her books—The Ministry of Pain, Lend Me Your Character, Thank You For Not...
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