Writers Discussing Tomorrow
Date: Wed, May 14, 2008
Distinguished writers from around the world discuss the future of creativity, the future of literature and the future in general.
Participants:
Moderator: Rana Werbin -- Editor-in-Chief of Hebrew literature at Yedioth Books publishing house; formerly, an actor, translator, journalist and literary critic (winning the Bernstein award for literary criticism in 2005); Lectures at the Open University in Tel Aviv and has hosted her own television program on the world of arts and culture
Na'im Araidi -- Ph.D. Lecturer in literature, Hebrew and education, Gordon College of Education; Director General, Center for Arab Children's Literature in Israel; received the 1990 Senate of Paris Award for his thesis on Uri Tzvi Greenberg's poetry
Nathan Englander -- Selected by New Yorker Magazine as one of the best twenty young authors in America; currently living in New York and teaching at Columbia University; his story collection "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" became an international bestseller and earned him a PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Jonathan Safran Foer -- Author of the international bestseller "Everything Is Illuminated" which was hailed as the Debut of the Decade, and translated into 35languages. The novel won numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize; His second novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close also became an international bestseller
Judith Katzir -- Award-winning author; Katzir has published two collections of stories and novellas, two novels and two children's books; currently, Editor, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah Publishing House and teaches creative writing
Nicole Krauss -- Author of the international bestseller "The History of Love" which won France's Prix du Meilleur Livre etranger and Amazon's #1 Book of the Year, and was short-listed for the Orange, British Book Award, Medicis and Femina prizes; Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages
Erri De Luca -- Best-selling author, divides his time between writing, studying and doing social work; He published his first novel "Non ora, non qui" at age forty; Since then he has written more than thirty books, novels, essays and translations
