Longing to be Understood: Language and Story
Sunday, June 7 | 12:00 PM - 12:50 PMMagnes Museum
- 2015
- Fiction
- International
- Poetry
Fabiano Alborghetti, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sjón Sigurdsson, Stephen Sparks
These three writers use language creatively, sometimes bending it wildly, to express human truths across people and cultures. They also play with myth and metaphor. What happens when their language and stories are translated? How do the different forms in which they write — fiction, poetry, playwriting, essays, lyrics — convey meaning differently?