{"id":1253,"date":"2012-10-15T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T02:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2012-10-04T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T01:51:07","slug":"asian-american-writers-workshop-translation-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Asian American Writers’ Workshop Translation Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>October 17, at 7:00 PM at 110-112 West 27th Street, Manhattan, AAWW and Archipelago Books are hosting<\/a> Fady Joudah, Sinan Antoon, Susan Bernofsky<\/a>, Jeffrey Yang<\/a>, and Ghassan Zaqtan for Translation Night, to “read literature spanning China and Japan to new innovations in Palestinian poetry, including work by Mahmoud Darwish\u00a0and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo [\u5218\u6653\u6ce2].”<\/p>\n

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October 17, at 7:00 PM at 110-112 West 27th Street, Manhattan, AAWW and Archipelago Books are hosting Fady Joudah, Sinan Antoon, Susan Bernofsky, Jeffrey Yang, and Ghassan Zaqtan for Translation Night, to “read literature spanning China and Japan to new … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[730,729,45,731,496],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-kd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2162,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2162","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":0},"title":"The Translators behind In Translation: A Conversation with Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Translators in the anglophone world are sometimes perceived as being on a \u201clower rung.\u201d The essays in our book certainly don\u2019t subscribe to that view. 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