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INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE & CULTURE at the INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 7pm at the Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7 JULYA RABINOWICH - TESS LEWIS IN CONVERSATION >>> Attendance free. Advance online registration required<https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/15594> Julya Rabinowich is one of the most prominent writers living and working in Austria today. Born in St. Petersburg, she moved to Vienna in 1977. Her work responds to the European refugee experience, but also engages intensively with the Austrian cultural heritage of the fin de siècle and beyond. She writes weekly columns addressing current issues for the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. Tess Lewis has translated numerous books from the German and French, including Austrian authors Peter Handke, Alois Hotschnig, Doron Rabinovici, and Maja Haderlap’s Angel of Oblivion, for which she won the 2017 PEN Translation Prize. Works by Julya Rabinowich she has translated include her debut novel Spaltkopf [Splithead] for Portobello Books in 2011 and an excerpt from her 2012 novel Die Erdfresserin [The Earth Eater]. Part of the series Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation<https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/encounters> This event is sponsored by the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture at the IMLR<https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/ingeborg-bachmann-centre-austrian-literature> Jane Lewin IMLR Trusts Administrator/Events Manager Revised office hours normally Monday, Wednesday, Friday Institute of Modern Languages Research University of London School of Advanced Study Room 239, Senate House Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966 Website http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the WIGS-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=WIGS-FORUM&A=1