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17 Nov 2020 12:15

Families and unicorns: writing cosmopolitan stories in days of global confinement

Online conference

Orienti Migranti 3: tra Letteratura e Traduzione
Ciclo di seminari coordinato da Sona Haroutyunian e Dario Miccoli

martedì 17 novembre 2020, h. 12.15-13.45
Families and unicorns: writing cosmopolitan stories in days of global confinement 

Una conversazione con lo scrittore israeliano Moshe Sakal
Introduzione: Dario Miccoli, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Moshe Sakal is an awarded novelist acclaimed by NBC, Le Monde, and Haaretz. He is the author of six Hebrew novels, including THE DIAMOND SETTER, published in NYC in 2018 (Other Press, translated by Man Booker Prize winner, Jessica Cohen), the best-selling YOLANDA, which was short-listed for the Sapir Prize and was published in France in 2012, and MY SISTER, which was long-listed in 2016. His new novel, UNICORN, was published in Hebrew in 2020. 
Moshe Sakal was born in Tel-Aviv into a Syrian-Egyptian Jewish family. He has been awarded the title of Honorary Fellow in Writing by the University of Iowa, the Eshkol Prize for his work, and a Fulbright grant. Sakal holds a maîtrise degree in Jewish Studies from INALCO university in Paris, and a Master's degree (Hon.) in Digital Culture, Philosophy, and Information from Tel Aviv University. He lived six years in Paris, France. He lives in Berlin. ​
 
Zoom meeting link: https://unive.zoom.us/j/99036435810


Il seminario sarà in inglese e ebraico

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Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea (Dario Miccoli), Centro di studi sul Medio Oriente Contemporaneo – CEM, Laboratorio sulla Traduzione delle lingue orientali - LAB-OR

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