Nobel Prize winners to visit Buffalo
With the spring reading season more or less behind us--this month's "If All Buffalo Read the Same Book" project featuring Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is the last major component of high profile literary programming before the relaxed pace of summer -- interesting news comes from Just Buffalo Literary Center's Artistic Director Michael Kelleher.
He tells of a major series of events featuring four major figures in World Literature visiting Buffalo for one day residencies beginning this November and extending through April of 2008.
The series, called "Babel," is co-sponsored by Just Buffalo, Talking Leaves Books and Hallwalls, and will focus exclusively on International (i.e., non-American) authors whose works are noteworthy for their broad and humanistic global vision. Just Buffalo plans to do "If All Of Buffalo Read The Same Book," projects around each author's visit in the month prior to their arrival. Here's the lineup, along with the book titles that will be featured in the reading project:
November 8: Orhan Pamuk, Turkey, 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, Snow
December 7: Ariel Dorfman, Argentina/Chile, Death and the Maiden
March 13: Derek Walcott, St. Lucia, 1992 Nobel Prize Winner, Selected Poems
April 24, Kiran Desai, India, 2006 Man Booker Prize Winner, The Inheritance of Loss
This will be a subscription series and tickets for selected events--which will take place at Hallwalls and The Church on Delaware Avenue--in all four visits will be available later this summer from Just Buffalo. A press conference is planned for next month to announce details, including the awarding of a grant of $323,000 from Buffalo's Oishei Foundation to underwrite the series over the next three years.
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