The Saint Ann’s Review presents An Evening Of and On Translation, featuring translators/writers: Harry Morales, Rika Lesser and Alexandra Zelman-Doring. The Brooklyn book festival Bookend Event is on Monday, September 15th at 122 Pierrepont Street. Enjoy a reading and Q & A with wine and cheese.
Novelist HARRY MORALES is a Spanish literary translator whose translations include works by the late Mario Benedetti, Ilan Stavans, and Francisco Proano Arandi, among many other distinguished Latin American writers. Morales’ translations have been widely published and anthologized.
RIKA LESSER has published four books of her own poetry as well as prized translations of Swedish and German literature, including works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Göran Sonnevi.
ALEXANDRA ZELMAN-DORING is a writer of plays, poetry, and non-fiction, and a co-founder of Throes Theater. She has translated the works of Israeli poet Saar Yachin.