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Following on the post about Amanda Michalopoulou’s upcoming events, here’s a list of all three Reading the World Conversation Series events taking place this month.

Women in Translation
Thursday, April 10th, 6pm

Welles-Brown Room
Rush Rhees Library
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Rochester, NY 14627

A conversation and reading with Bulgarian authors Albena Stambolova (Everything Happens as It Does) and Virginia Zaharieva (Nine Rabbits), and Danish author Iben Mondrup (Justine, forthcoming from Open Letter in 2016) and translator Kerri Pierce to discuss their writing and careers���Ĵ�ý�both in their home countries and abroad.

Radical Politics and BFFs
Tuesday, April 15th, 6pm

Gowen Room
Wilson Commons
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Rochester, NY 14627

A conversation and reading with Greek author Amanda Michalopoulou and translator Karen Emmerich as they read and discuss Amanda���Ĵ�ý�s Why I Killed My Best Friend.

���Ĵ�ý�Flawlessly translated, Amanda Michalopoulou���Ĵ�ý�s WIKMBF uses the backdrop of Greek politics, radical protests, and the art world to explore the dangers and joys that come with BFFs. Or, as the narrator puts it, ���Ĵ�ý�odiosamato,���Ĵ�ý� which translates roughly as ���Ĵ�ý�frienemies.���Ĵ�ý����Ĵ�ý� ���Ĵ�ý�Gary Shteyngart

Latin American Literature Today
Tuesday, April 22nd, 6pm

Gowen Room
Wilson Commons
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Rochester, NY 14627

A conversation with two of the authors included in Granta Magazine���Ĵ�ý�s ���Ĵ�ý�Best Young Spanish-language Novelists���Ĵ�ý� issue���Ĵ�ý�Andrés Neuman (Traveler of the Century, Talking to Ourselves) and Carlos Labbé (Navidad & Matanza, Loquela), and translator and ���Ĵ�ý alum Will Vanderhyden, on their latest words and current trends in Latin American Literature.