Sunday, April 17, 2005
PEN & TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL -- BUSY INT'L WEEK IN NYC
PEN, the international organization of writers is having a meeting in New York this week with many of the world's greatest authors speaking in person.
THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL (TFF) also starts this week, beginning on the 19th with THE INTERPRETER, the Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn UN thriller directed by Sydney Pollack. TFF is one of the biggest, most event filled, film events of the year.
It is amazing that a city -- even one this big and vibrant -- can support so many huge events.
Here is the list of participants in PEN:
Please note: Participants and programs are subject to change.
Kader Abdolah
Andre Aciman
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Hanan al-Shaykh
Elizabeth Alexander
Svetlana Alexievich
Esther Allen
Nuria Amat
Jonathan Ames
Jakob Arjouni
Margaret Atwood
Antoine Audouard
Paul Auster
Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour
Anouar Benmalek
Tom Bissell
François Bizot
Breyten Breytenbach
Chico Buarque
Ian Buruma
Peter Bush
Jean Canavaggio
Peter Carey
Rafael Chirbes
Yvette Christiansë
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Achmat Dangor
Mark Danner
Bei Dao
Assia Djebar
E. L. Doctorow
Tomás Eloy Martinez
Carolin Emcke
Victor Erofeyev
Martin Espada
Robert Faggen
Nuruddin Farah
Lilian Faschinger
Jonathan Franzen
Cornelia Funke
John Godfrey
Francisco Goldman
Adam Gopnik
Philip Gourevitch
Edith Grossman
Durs Grünbein
Ahmad Karimi Hakkak
Robert Hass
Vaclav Havel
Edward Hirsch
Eva Hoffman
Michael Hofmann
Nancy Huston
Siri Hustvedt
Gish Jen
Ha Jin
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Nassim Khaksar
Natsuo Kirino
Wayne Koestenbaum
Hanif Kureishi
Susanne Lange
Katja Lange-Müller
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Susie Linfield
Lois Lowry
Carlo Lucarelli
Claudio Magris
Andreï Makine
Kanan Makiya
Aleksandra Mancic
Norman Manea
Joan Margarit Consarnau
Khaled Mattawa
Zakes Mda
Pedro Rosa Mendes
Dunya Mikhail
James Miller
Pankaj Mishra
Minae Mizumura
Rick Moody
Pat Mora
Kyoko Mori
Nahid Mozaffari
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Azar Nafisi
Cees Nooteboom
Michael Ondaatje
Shahrnush Parsipur
Robert Polito
Elena Poniatowska
José Manuel Prieto
Francine Prose
Jordi Puntí
David Remnick
Laura Restrepo
Patrick Roth
Salman Rushdie
Yuri Rythkeu
Shan Sa
Luc Sante
John Ralston Saul
Aline Schulman
Elif Shafak
Meir Shalev
Gary Shteyngart
Robert Silvers
Wole Soyinka
Peter Stamm
Paco Ignacio Taibo
Niloufar Talebi
Goli Taraghi
Yoko Tawada
Shashi Tharoor
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Uwe Timm
Lyonel Trouillot
Barber van de Pol
Tomas Venclova
Lawrence Venuti
Eliot Weinberger
Lawrence Weschler
Leon Wieseltier
Sholeh Wolpe
Huang Xiang
Oksana Zabuzhko
Adam Zagajewski
