As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. Join And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again contributors Gábor T. Szántó and Paul Olchváry on Zoom for a free virtual talk about our new anthology of literary dispatches from life during the pandemic.
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante’s Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, poems, and artwork in this collection detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future. A portion of proceeds will go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, which helps the passionate booksellers get back on their feet after the lockdown.
This event is hosted by Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, North Carolina. Purchase And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again from Malaprop's.
When: Thursday September 10, 2020 at 12 pm ET
Gábor T. Szántó (1966, Budapest) novelist, essayist, editor-in-chief of Szombat (www.szombat.org), Hungarian Jewish Magazine. Author of several novels and collections of short stories some of which have also been published in Germany, Russia, Turkey, and is coming out soon in Italy, China and the Czech Republic.
Paul Olchváry has translated more than ten books from Hungarian, including György Dragomán's novel The White King (Houghton Mifflin) and Károly Pap's novel Azarel (Steerforth), and has received translation awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, and Hungary's Milán Füst Foundation. His shorter translations have appeared in The Paris Review, The Hungarian Quarterly, and turnrow. A native of Amherst, New York, he lives both in Kismaros, Hungary, and various reaches of the American Northeast.
Edited by Ilan Stavans
In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020