{"id":157,"date":"2007-11-27T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?page_id=157"},"modified":"2009-03-04T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T13:20:51","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?page_id=157","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bathlitfest.org.uk\/index.php?id=423\">Bath Literature Festival 09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Focus on Hungary: Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n &#038; Rana Dasgupta with George Szirtes<\/p>\n<p>Event date: Fri 6 March | Event time: 16.30-17.30 | Event location: Guildhall<\/p>\n<p>Price: \u00a36 (\u00a34) | Book now!<\/p>\n<p>Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n discusses literature, life, translation, and childhood under communism with poet and translator George Szirtes.<\/p>\n<p>Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n translates James Joyce, I B Singer and Ian McEwan into Hungarian. He won the prestigious S\u00e1ndor M\u00e1rai Prize for his first novel The White King, an urgent, humorous and melancholy picture of a childhood behind the Iron Curtain. Rana Dasgupta\u2019s highly anticipated second novel, Solo, is narrated by a 100-year-old blind Bulgarian who, musing on extinct languages and cultures, embarks on an epic journey through a hundred years of history, memory, and prophecy.  They discuss literature, life, Eastern Europe and post communism with poet and translator George Szirtes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbookfest.co.uk\/\">Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n &amp; Sa\u0161a Stani\u0161ic<br \/>\nWRITERS OF THE WORLD<br \/>\n4.30pm I Writers\u2019 Retreat I \u00a36.00 \u00a34.00<br \/>\nTwo utterly captivating novels fromEastern Europe to kick off our series<br \/>\nbringing themost exciting international voices to Scotland. Young Bosnian<br \/>\nSa\u0161a Stani\u0161i\u00b4c has sprung to stunning acclaimfor his debut How<br \/>\nThe Soldier Repairs The Gramophone, a quirky, heartfelt boy\u2019s-eye view of<br \/>\nthe Bosnian conflict. Hungarian Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n also poignantly conjures<br \/>\na boy\u2019s perspective as his father is taken away by a totalitarian state in the<br \/>\naward-winning The White King.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/author.php\/prmAID\/402\">PEN\u00a0World\u00a0Voices\u00a0New\u00a0York<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 2 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/2035\/prmID\/1376\">Leaving Home<\/a><br \/>\nWhen: Friday, May 2<br \/>\nWhere: Austrian Cultural Forum: 11 East 52nd St.<br \/>\nWhat time: 5:30\u20136:30 p.m.<br \/>\nWith Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n, Dinaw Mengestu, and Sa\u0161a Stani\u0161i\u0107; moderated by Irina Reyn<br \/>\nFree and open to the public; reservations required.<br \/>\nFor reservations, call ACF at (212) 319-5300, ext. 222, or e-mail reservations@acfny.org<\/p>\n<p>May 1 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/1952\/prmID\/1376\">Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State<\/a><br \/>\nWhen: Thursday, May 1<br \/>\nWhere: Joe\u2019s Pub: 425 Lafayette St.<br \/>\nWhat time: 9 p.m.<br \/>\nWith Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n, Hasan Elahi, Asli Erdogan, P\u00e9ter Esterh\u00e1zy, Chenjerai Hove, Irakli Kakabadze, Ivy Meeropol, and Ingo Schulze<br \/>\nTickets: $10\/$8 PEN and ACLU members<br \/>\nPurchase tickets from Joe\u2019s Pub: www.joespub.com or (212) 967-5555<\/p>\n<p>April 30 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/1928\/prmID\/1376\">Rewriting Family<\/a><br \/>\nWhen: Wednesday, April 30<br \/>\nWhere: Housing Works Bookstore Caf\u00e9: 126 Crosby St.<br \/>\nWhat time: 7\u20138:30 p.m.<br \/>\nWith Ana Castillo, Gyorgy Dragoman, Yael Hedaya, P.F. Thomese; moderated by Stacey D\u2019Erasmo<br \/>\nFree and open to the public. No reservations.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday | 22 January | 7.00 pm<br \/>\nThe Day of Hungarian Culture<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOK LAUNCH<\/strong><br \/>\nGy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n \u2013 The White King (Published by Doubleday)<br \/>\nIntroduced by Tibor Fischer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungary.org.uk\/start.html\">Hungarian Cultural Centre<\/a><br \/>\n10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bath Literature Festival 09 Focus on Hungary: Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n &#038; Rana Dasgupta with George Szirtes Event date: Fri 6 March | Event time: 16.30-17.30 | Event location: Guildhall Price: \u00a36 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}