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Olga Tokarczuk will be appearing September 22 at 8:30 p.m. at the International Festival of Literature
in Berlin, which this year has a special focus on
Eastern Europe. Deatils can be found here.
New reviews of Primeval and Other Times are in The Prague Post
and Krakow Post.
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Interesting piece on The Passive Vampire at Vertigo.
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Olga Tokarczuk will be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 18 at 18:00. The complete
program brochure can be downloaded here (and there's a lot going on).
She and Andrzej Stasiuk will also be at the International Festival of Literature in Berlin,
which takes place September 15-26.
Olga will be having events at multiple venues in the US this November courtesy of the Polish Cultural Institute (details to follow).
A recent interview with Olga for Radio Free Europe is here.
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Eurozine has published a conversation with Martin M. Simecka and Laszlo Rajk about their fathers' past affiliation with the Communist Party:
"The Slovak author and journalist Martin M. Simecka and Hungarian
architect and former samizdat publisher László Rajk are not only former dissidents of the younger generation, but also the sons of well-known
persecuted communists. In the first debate in the Eurozine series "Europe talks to Europe", they discussed the still unanswered questions surrounding
the involvement of their father's generation in post-war communism."
You can read it here.
Milan Simecka also discusses becoming a dissident after his expulsion from the Party in Letters from Prison.
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Upcoming appearances for Olga Tokarczuk:
Friday, May 14, 2-4 p.m.
Book World Prague
web site here
UK tour:
(for more details please see the
Polish Cultural Institute's page)
Sunday, May 30, 1 p.m.
Hay Festival
Oxfam Studio
Hay-on-Wye, Wales
festival web site here
Tuesday, June 1, 7 p.m.
London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Place
London WC1A 2JL
Thursday, June 3, 6 p.m.
Waterstone's
153-157 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3EW
NB: Signed copies of House of Day, House of Night and Primeval and Other Times will be available
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A review of Primeval and Other Times appears in the May 2010 issue of Words without Borders.
And Olga Tokarczuk has an op-ed in The New York Times
about the recent tragedy in Poland.
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Robert Gal at this year's Prague Writers' Festival:
Monday, June 7, 5 p.m.
Prague Municipal Library
in conversation along with Michal Ajvaz
and Radka Denemarkova
Tuesday, June 8, 4:30 p.m.
Nova scena, National Theater
Reading
Read a review of Gal's new work here and
an interview here.
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Soren Gauger has a translation from Witold Gombrowicz in the spring 2010 issue of the Southern Review.
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