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Rooftop Happy Hour with Words Without Borders

  • Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), 7th Floor Event Center 455 5th Avenue New York, NY, 10016 United States (map)

Join us on the SNFL terrace for readings, drinks, crafts, and more with Words Without Borders!

Featuring:

  • Carmen Boullosa

  • Valzhyna Mort

  • Jaroslav Kalfař

LIVE from NYPL's happy hours on the terrace at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) take place on select Fridays. Drop in for drinks, mingling, and crafts, as well as a short selection of curated readings!

Join us at any point between 5:30-7:30 PM. Readings will begin at about 6:15 PM.

This April the Library hosts its third-annual World Literature Festival, which shines a spotlight on books and writers from around the world. As part of the festival, we are proud to partner with Words Without Borders, the home for international literature whose mission is to cultivate global awareness by expanding access to international writing and creating a bridge between readers, writers, and translators.

Co-presented with Words Without Borders, the premier destination for global literary conversations.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Carmen Boullosa is the author of a dozen volumes of poetry and has published nineteen novels (the most recent on translation, The Book of Eve), as well as four books of essays and ten plays (seven staged). She is a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a Cullman Center Fellow and DAAD Fellow. Winner of the prizes Casa de América in Madrid (poetry), Ibargüengoitia, Villarrutia and José Emilio Pacheco in Mexico, among others. The New York Public Library acquired her archive.

Jaroslav Kalfař, born in the Czech Republic, immigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen. His critically acclaimed debut, Spaceman of Bohemia, a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, has been translated into fifteen languages. A major motion picture adaptation of Spaceman of Bohemia is coming this fall. His newest novel, A Brief History of Living Forever, has been named one of the best books of the season by Esquire magazine. In 2018, Kalfař was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. He holds an MFA from New York University and lives in Brooklyn.

Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus, and moved to the United States in 2006. She is the author of the poetry collections Factory of Tears and Collected Body. She received the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize, as well as the 2005 Crystal of Vilenica Award in Slovenia. She lives in Washington, DC.