BOOK RELEASE & READING
TAMING THE DIVINE HERON
Featuring George Henson in conversation with Boris Dralyuk.
Saturday, November 18, 2023 | 1:30-2:30 pm
Magic City Books | Algonquin Room
221 E Archer St, Tulsa, OK 74103
TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMMING IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Magic City Books for an evening with translator and awardee George Henson. Henson will discuss the publication of his translation of Sergio Pitol's novel Taming the Divine Heron. The conversation will be guest moderated by Boris Dralyuk.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
George Henson is the translator of six books by Cervantes laureate Sergio Pitol, as well as works by fellow Cervantes laureate Elena Poniatowska, Luis Jorge Boone, and Alberto Chimal. His translation of Abel Posse’s memoir A Long Day in Venice was longlisted recently for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute’s Translation Prize. His work has appeared variously in Words Without Borders, Latin American Literature Today, World Literature Today, Granta, Two Lines, and The New England Review. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Tulsa and is a 2021–2023 Tulsa Artist Fellow.
Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022) and the translator of works by Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, and other authors. His poems, translations, and criticism have appeared in the NYRB, the TLS, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, and he is the recipient, most recently, of the 2022 Gregg Barrios Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa.
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