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Watch this page for the most recent information on forthcoming work and upcoming lectures, readings, book-launch parties and media appearances.

NEW PRIZE

Translation Prize of the Calw Hermann Hesse Foundation

NEW BOOK

Berlin Stories by Robert Walser (New York: New York Review Books, 2012)

FORTHCOMING BOOKS

The Walk by Robert Walser, translated by Christopher Middleton with Susan Bernofsky (New York: New Directions, June 2012)

The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (New York: New York Review Books Classics, Fall 2012)

UPCOMING EVENTS

March 24
HotINK Festival of International Plays
Moderator, conversation with Cypriot playwright Giorgos Neophytou following presentation of his play DNA
The Lark
311 West 43rd Street, 4th/5th Fl.
3:00 p.m.

March 28
Interwoven Worlds: A Symposium Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East (co-curator)
featuring a keynote presentation by Elias Khoury
Full program here
Rosenthal Library, Queens College
65-30 Kissena Blvd., Queens

"Editing Translations" (moderator)
with Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Books) and Edwin Frank (New York Review Books Classics)
1:15 – 2:45 p.m.

"The Writer as Translator" (moderator)
with Sinan Antoon, Murat Nemet-Nejat and Ammiel Alcalay
5:00 – 6:15 p.m.

March 29
"Translation and Alternative Publishing" (panelist)
with Anna Moschavakis, Esther Allen, Ammiel Alcalay and Eliot Weinberger
2012 Chapbook Festival
Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

May 3
"Reviewing Translations" (co-moderator with Eric Banks)
PEN World Voices Festival
with Ruth Franklin, Lorin Stein, Julya Rabinowich and Haykanush Avetisyan
Wollman Hall, The New School
65 W. 11th Street
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

May 4
"The Place of Translation Theory, Commentary and Research" (panelist)
Pedagogies of Translation: Current Methods and Future Prospects
James Room
Barnard Hall, 4th Floor
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.