Esther Allen
Esther Allen teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center and at Baruch College (CUNY), where she directs the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Her translation of Zama, by Antonio Di Benedetto, won the 2017 National Translation Award and she was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Her essays and translations have appeared in The New York Review Daily, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, Bomb, and elsewhere. Read her work at www.estherallen.com.
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Events
Conversation & Reading
“The Hollow Pillars of the Law”: Chilean Poetry in the Time of Pinochet
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Thu, May 2, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Celebration
PEN International: 100 Years Celebrating Literature and Promoting Freedom of Expression
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Wed, Nov 17, 2021
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Conversation
Translation Is a Mode = Translation Is an Anti-neocolonial Mode: Readings and Roundtable Discussion
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Mon, Apr 12, 2021
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Conversation, Conference & ***Conference and Conversation Series***
Translating the Future Finale: A Flight of Tokarczuk Translators
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Fri, Sep 25, 2020
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Conversation, Conference & ***Conference and Conversation Series***
Translating the Future Finale: Postmonolingual New York with Ava Chin, Jasmine Claude-Narcisse, Damion Searls, and Lisandro Pérez
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Wed, Sep 23, 2020
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Conversation, Conference & ***Conference and Conversation Series***
Translating the Future Finale: “On the Elusive Art of Translation,” with Kate Briggs and Tracy K. Smith, moderated by Magdalena Edwards
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Tue, Sep 22, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation, Conference & ***Conference and Conversation Series***
Translating the Future: “Activist Translation,” with Anton Hur, Sevinç Türkkan, and Jen Hofer
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Tue, Sep 15, 2020
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM