January 06, 2015
2014 Lake Forest Literary Festival
This Literary Festival’s theme was Translation. Featured guests included: Anne-Laure Tissut, a scholar and translator of American literature who teaches at the Université de Rouen; Eleni Sikelianos, the American poet and memoirist and winner of a New York Council for the Arts Translation Award; and Matthew Nye, the winner of the 2013-2014 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Award and Book Prize for his novel-in-progress, Pike and Bloom.
Monday, March 3
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4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.:
Literary Festival: Panel Discussion on Translation
Panel on Translation featuring Evelyne Accad, Eleni Sikelianos and Anne-Laure Tissut, moderated by Professor Dan Hanna. -
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.:
Literary Festival: Reading by Eleni Sikelianos
Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, memoirist and translator, and directs the creative writing program at the University of Denver. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead and The California Poem, from Coffee House Press, and a memoir, The Book of Jon.
