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By invitation of the
Center for Writers & Translators, Alison
Leslie Gold will launch her new work, no. 12
in the Cahiers Series,
Lost and
Found. Best known for her book
Anne Frank Remembered, Alison Leslie
Gold will present and discuss her most
personal work to date, a memoir centered on
recent losses of loved ones, and the various
findings that may alleviate the
darkness. Her cahier’s narrative is set within
the wider context of the displacement of
European Jewry in the 20th century and is
accompanied by 13 paintings from artist
Charlotte Salomon’s masterpiece Leben? oder
Teater?
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Alison Leslie Gold |
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Alison Leslie Gold's Holocaust and World War II-related works include Anne
Frank Remembered, written with Miep Gies, Memories of Anne Frank:
Reflections of a Childhood Friend, A Special Fate, and Fiet's Vase
and Other Stories of Survival (the last of which she has said is her
farewell to this subject matter). Elie Wiesel wrote of Alison Gold and Anne
Frank Remembered: “Without her and her talent of persuasion, without her
writer's talent, too, this poignant account, vibrating with humanity, would not
have been written”. Her nonfiction work has received tributes ranging from a
Best of the Best Award (granted by the American Library Association) to a
Notable Book for a Global Society Award to a Christopher Award. She has also
published fiction, including Clairvoyant and The Devil's Mistress,
the latter being nominated for the National Book Award. She divides her time
between Manhattan, Hydra (Greece), and British Columbia.
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"Lost and Found" (The Cahier Series, vol.12. Sylph Editions,
February 2010)
Alison Gold's website
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By invitation of the
Center for Writers & Translators and the
Department of Comparative Literature and
English, Gao Xingjian will launch the latest
in the Cahiers Series, which contains the
author’s most recent dramatic work, Ballade
Nocturne. Gao will discuss his work (in
French) with AUP’s Dan Gunn and with the
cahier’s translator Claire Conceison of Duke
University.
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Gao Xingjian |
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GAO Xingjian was born in China in 1940, graduated from the French department of
the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute in 1962, and was employed as a
translator from 1962 to 1970, following which he spent five years doing labour
in the countryside. After his first play was produced at the Beijing People’s
Art Theatre, performances of his second play, Bus Stop, were halted by
the authorities in 1983. Gao was granted political refugee status in France in
1989 after writing the play Escape, following the events of Tiananmen
Square, and his works have been banned in China ever since. He was named
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1992 and became a French citizen
in 1997. His novels include Soul Mountain and One Man’s Bible and
his paintings have been exhibited in Europe, Asia, and North America. In 2000
Gao Xingjian was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and named Chevalier de
l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur. He made his first film in 2006 shortly before
completing his latest play, Ballade nocturne.
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