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(2003)
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jan |
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9
Reading
at Freshfield, Merseyside
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feb
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11
Presenting the Hungarian poet Zsuzsa Rakovszky at the Hungarian
Cultural Centre (George was her translator in New Life (OUP 1994),
the book that won the European Poetry Translation Prize).
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mar |
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Chard Festival of
Women's Music, for performance of Air Kissing, with composer
Jane Wells.
30
Reading at Cambridge Wordfest
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may |
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3
Wells Festival
6
Reading at the Princess Louise, 208 High Holburn, London WC1 (AMBIT
magazine). 7.30pm, £4 / 3 concessions
14
Reading and
discussion (with Jo Shapcott and Natan Barreto) at the Barbican Art
Gallery, 7pm. Tickets £7 (includes admission to exhibit of photographs by Sebastiao
Salgado), students £2.
Book at 020 7382 7211 or www.barbican.org.uk/art
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jul |
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7 - 12
Tutoring Arvon (Totleigh Barton) with Jane Draycott
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nov |
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11
Reading at the CB1 Cafe, Cambridge, with excellent young Romanian
poet, Carmen Bugan.
24
New End Theatre, Hampstead, 7.30. Introducing and taking part in
Hungarian Quarterly evening, led by editor Miklos Vajda, an
entertainment made up from modern Hungarian literature in
translation.
30
George
Szirtes and scholar
Peter Sherwood
assess the work and achievements of
Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész, who writes
about what happened to Hungarian Jews under Nazi/Arrow Cross rule.
Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, 12.30pm.
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dec |
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1
Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2, Exiled Writers, 7.30
pm. Reading and talking with the great London based Hungarian writer
Victor (Gyõzõ) Határ.
8
Ray Keenoy is doing a launch performance of Autumn Leaves, Lives of
Fifty Great Hungarians (Boulevard Books) also at the New End
Theatre, Hampstead
13
December - One of a number of speakers at symposium on Hungarian
Writing at Royal Holloway College.
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jul |
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12
Ledbury Festival
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John Hewitt Summer School, Ireland
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aug |
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28
Harrow Library (Committee Room) 6-7.30
Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow
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sep |
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Reading
with Paul Bailey, Hugo Hamilton, Grace Ingoldby and Alan
Brownjohn as part of the Days and Nights of Literature Festival
in Constanza, Romania
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oct |
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4
Reading at Poetry Cafe, London
(writersartists.net launch)
12
Essex Festival
20
Sunday,
2pm, reading with Doris Lessing, Yang Lian, Ghada Karmi, Fay Weldon,
and Jack Mapange: 'Elsewhere underwrites my existence' I at the ICA
. See ICA programme (www.ica.org.uk)
for October, for details.
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nov |
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1-3
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival: running a workshop at 2pm on Friday
1st and doing Breakfast with the Translators on Sunday 3rd.
26/27
Speaker, Brussels Conference: Whose History Is It Anyway
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