Gelasimov, Krasznahorkai, Shteyngart: Readings at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Tue Apr 8 15:30:13 UTC 2014

*FYI FOR PEOPLE IN THE NYC AREA. THREE READINGS AT COLUMBIA IN APRIL.*

*Andrei Gelasimov*

*Friday, April 18, 2014*

*6:00pm - 7:30pm*

*Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 IAB)*

Please join the Harriman Institute for a reading and talk by Russian
writer *Andrei
Gelasimov*, author of the novel *Thirst*. Gelasimov, born in Irkutsk in
1965, studied foreign languages at Yakutsk State University and directing
at the Moscow Theater Institute. In 2001, he became an overnight literary
sensation in Russia when his story, "A Tender Age," which he published on
the Internet, was awarded a prize for the best debut. It went on to receive
the Apollon Grigorev and Belkin prizes as well, and his novels have been
consistently met with critical and popular success in Russia and throughout
Europe. *Thirst*, published in Russian in 2002 to great acclaim, was his
first book to come out in English in 2011, followed by three others--all
translated by Marian Schwartz--including *Gods of the Steppe*, the Russian
original of which won the 2009 "Big Book" Russian National Bestseller
award. Gelasimov won the Award for Best Screenplay for *Thirst* at the
Honfleur Film Festival (2013). He will read from *Thirst*, talk about his
screenplay and the making of the film based on the novel, and entertain
questions about contemporary Russian culture.

*László Krasznahorkai*

*Tuesday, April 22, 2014*

*6:30pm-8:00pm*

*Room 1512 International Affairs Building*

Please join the Harriman Institute, the East Central European Center, the
Slavic Department, and the American Hungarian Library and Historical
Society for an evening with the celebrated Hungarian writer, *László
Krasznahorkai*. The author will read from his recent work
*Animalinside* (2010),
an animated dialogue between text and image created in collaboration with
the painter Max Neumann.

László Krasznahorkai has won the America Award in Literature (2014), the
Best Translated Book Award (2013), the Brücke-Berlin Prize (2010), and
numerous other international awards. His work has been translated into
English and many other languages. Krasznahorkai was invited to Columbia as
part of the Harriman Institute's Contemporary Writers Series, inaugurated
last year by the Russian novelist Mikhail Shishkin. During his residency,
Krasznahorkai is teaching a seminar on artistic collaboration across media
in East Central Europe. His month-long course focuses on his work with the
Hungarian film director, Béla Tarr, and the German painter, Max Neumann.

*Gary Shteyngart*

*Wednesday, April 23, 2014*

*7:00 pm*

*417 IAB, 420 West 118th Street*

Please join the Harriman Institute for a reading of *Gary
Shteyngart*<http://harriman.columbia.edu/people/gary-shteyngart>
's new memoir, *Little Failure*, followed by a discussion with the author.

"[A] keenly observed tale of exile, coming-of-age and family love: It's
raw, comic and deeply affecting, a testament to Mr. Shteyngart's abilities
to write with both self-mocking humor and introspective wisdom, sharp-edged
sarcasm and aching--and yes, Chekhovian--tenderness."*--Michiko Kakutani, The
New York Times*

"Dazzling . . . *Little Failure* is a rich, nuanced memoir. It's an
immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a
becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a
success."*--Meg Wolitzer, NPR*

 "What a beautiful mess! . . . [Shteyngart has] not just his own distinct
identity, but all the loose ends and unresolved contradictions out of which
great literature is made." *--Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books*

Ronald Meyer
Communications Manager, Harriman Institute
Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. Slavic Languages
Columbia University
420 West 118 Street
New York, NY 10027

212 854-6218

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