Dear all, you might remember my writing you in fall about a spring
event for the translation series. I'm forwarding the info I sent about
it before -- the writer is Arno Bertina, a French novelist.

The French Embassy is organizing his tour and they have specified
March 6 for his visit to Miami. Not sure why they, or the French
dept., set the date without checking with us -- it's is not a good
date for our program because it's AWP week, not to mention 2 days
after the Susana Gardner reading. And Laird Hunt, the translator,
can't come then because he'll be at AWP. But March 6  is the date
we've got. If you're in town, I think it will be worth going.

Cathy


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From: Cathy Wagner <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Subject: Possible spring event
To: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty <[log in to unmask]>


Hi all,

Guillaume Paugam in French & Italian has proposed to me that we apply
for Humanities Center funding for another translation event in spring.
It would involve a French novelist he writes on, Arno Bertina, who
sounds very interesting -- he is the author of several novels that
have received a lot of attention in France, and is one of the editors
of what sounds like a cool and cutting-edge French magazine and press,
Inculte. Bertina has a new book coming out in the US, Brando, My
Solitude (Counterpath) that's been translated by Laird Hunt. (Hunt you
may know of -- he publishes with Coffee House -- has a number of books
out, including a new book called The Kind Ones that I haven't read and
one I liked some years ago called The Impossibly. I've known him for a
long time -- good guy.)

Would you support this event? I think it might look good on the
application if someone from fiction co-signed the grant application
(I'm not asking you to put in any work on the application itself). The
next Humanities deadline is January 11.

Guillaume mentioned March/April for the visit -- tight times I know,
and I saw your email about the sprint, Margaret -- we will be careful
about the dates.

Thanks,

Cathy


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Catherine Wagner
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English Dept
Miami University
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