Fwd: This Friday @ 4:30pm! Levy Hideo speaks at Swarthmore

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Atsuko Suda

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Nov 2, 2011, 10:40:41 AM11/2/11
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食事会のみなさま、
『星条旗の聞こえない部屋』のリービ英雄さんがスワスモア大学でご講演なさいます。講演は英語ですが、ご興味ある方はどうぞ。一番下にキャンパスマップのリンクをつけておきました。
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Author Levy Hideo will discuss his own experience as an outsider in
Japan and how he became the first American novelist to write in
Japanese. Recipient of the National Book Award for Translation for his
poetry anthology Collecton of Ten Thousand Leaves and winner of the
Noma Literary Award for New Writers for Seijōki no Kikoenai Heya -
Levy will talk about his recently published English translation, A
Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot be Heard (Columbia
University Press, July 2011 ), a coming-of-age story set in Japan
during the 1960s.

Followed by a book signing and reception.

Friday, November 4 th
4:30PM
McCabe Library

Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Swarthmore College Library


http://www.swarthmore.edu/visitordash/dash_visitors.php

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