Whose Story?
Featuring
- Evan FallenbergSee more about Evan Fallenberg
Apr 15, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Centre for Stories
Whether from experience or imagination, how is it possible to write well about characters and situations off the mainstream, characters whose skin colour, spiritual beliefs, migration experience, gender, sexual orientation and identity or other factors create a distance between them and the society around them? And who gets to write those characters? Only members of particular interest groups, or any writer sensitive enough to enter wholly the world of his/her characters?
This master class will explore these questions and others as we discuss, read and write together. Facilitated by US-born Israeli novelist and translator Evan Fallenberg.
Lunch will be provided – let us know if you have any dietary requirements by filling out the dietary form at checkout.
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Evan Fallenberg
Collapse BioEvan Fallenberg is author of the novels Light Fell (Soho Press 2008), When We Danced on Water (HarperCollins 2011) and The Parting Gift (Other Press 2018) and a translator of Hebrew fiction, plays and films. His work has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including an American Library Association Award, the Edmund White Award and the PEN Translation Prize. He teaches at Bar-Ilan University and is faculty co-director of the Vermont College of Fine Arts International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation. Fallenberg is the founder of Arabesque: An Arts and Residency Center in Old Acre, Israel, where he lives.
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