Join us for a virtual talk with author and translator Ani Gjika for her new memoir An Unruled Body, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Gjika will appear in conversation with Suzana Vuljevic.

Where: Online - Click to learn more

When: 7:00pm on Tuesday, January 9th 2024

Albanian-born writer Ani Gjika is the author and literary translator of eight books and chapbooks of poetry, among them Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, 2013), a finalist for the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her translation from the Albanian of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s Negative Space (New Directions and Bloodaxe Books, 2018) won an English PEN Award and was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, PEN America Award, and Best Translated Book Award. She is a graduate of Boston University’s MFA program where she was a 2011 Robert Pinsky Global fellow, and GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator program, where she was a 2019 Pauline Scheer Fellow. Having taught creative writing at various universities in the U.S. and Thailand, Gjika currently teaches English as a Second Language at Framingham High School in Massachusetts.

Suzana Vuljevic holds a Ph.D. in History and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her work focuses on the nexus between cultural production and politics, and has been funded by numerous grants and fellowships. A freelance writer, editor and literary translator, her work has appeared in a range of popular publications. In her writing, research, and translation work, Suzana aims to center the voices of historically underrepresented persons, including women and authors from what are considered “minor” cultures and languages. She is a research editor at EuropeNow and a 2022 ALTA Virtual Travel Fellow.