Bill Johnston at Center for Arts in Translation, San Francisco

[Sibelan Forrester]

For Slavists and fans of literature in the San Francisco area:

THURSDAY: Bill Johnston Celebrates Poland's Epic 20th Century

Join us on Thursday as we welcome the winner of the 2011 Best Translated 
Book Award and the 2011 PEN Translation Award!

That's right: Bill Johnston received those honors for his amazing 
translation of Stone Upon Stone by Wieslaw Mysliwski. The book is an 
epic, action-packed tale of a modernizing Poland filled with bar fights, 
drinking, tales from the peasant life, and lots and lots of sex. It's a 
little like a Polish /One Hundred Years of Solitude/, filled with all 
kinds of colloquial Polish that will surely lead to some interesting 
translation questions.

Come hear the celebrated, engaging Johnston talk about the 
career-capping masterpiece from one of Europe's greatest 20th-century 
authors, a two-time recipient of Poland's highest literary honor.

     * November 15, 2012
     * 111 Minna St Gallery (Minna @ Second St.), San Francisco
     * 12:30 - 1:30 pm
     * FREE

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