Book launch/film/art
05/23/13
7:00pm
Gasser Grunert Gallery
524 W. 19th St.
New York, NY 10011
Free
Archipelago Books and the Haitian Cultural Foundation present Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated from the German by Peter Wortsman, with illustrations by contemporary Haitian artists. Wortsman will read from the tales, which in his version restore their original, unsanitized character.
In addition to the reading, filmmakers Eve Blouin and Raynald Leconte will preview In the Eye of the Spiral, a documentary exploring Haiti's traditions and culture and the lives of its artists and intellectuals. A Q&A with translator-compiler Wortsman and discussion with Raynald Leconte and francophone scholar Kaiama L. Glover will follow. The event is set among works by artists selected by Contemporary Haitian Artists Exhibition, with net proceeds from sales to benefit Archipelago Books and the Haitian Cultural Foundation.
Peter Wortsman received the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year in the Solas Awards Competition and is the author of A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and Microtales and the recent memoir, Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray. His translated works include titles by Robert Musil, Heinrich Heine, Peter Altenberg, and Heinrich von Kleist.
05/23/13
7:00pm
Gasser Grunert Gallery
524 W. 19th St.
New York, NY 10011
Free
Archipelago Books and the Haitian Cultural Foundation present Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated from the German by Peter Wortsman, with illustrations by contemporary Haitian artists. Wortsman will read from the tales, which in his version restore their original, unsanitized character. In addition to the reading, filmmakers Eve Blouin and Raynald Leconte will preview In the Eye of the Spiral, a documentary exploring Haiti's traditions and culture and the lives of its artists and intellectuals. A Q&A with translator-compiler Wortsman and discussion with Raynald Leconte and francophone scholar Kaiama L. Glover will follow. The event is set among works by artists selected by Contemporary Haitian Artists Exhibition, with net proceeds from sales to benefit Archipelago Books and the Haitian Cultural Foundation.
Peter Wortsman received the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year in the Solas Awards Competition and is the author of A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and Microtales and the recent memoir, Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray. His translated works include titles by Robert Musil, Heinrich Heine, Peter Altenberg, and Heinrich von Kleist.
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