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PEN World Voices Festival presents
Reading From Around The Globe: Opening Night Extravaganza
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Mohsin Hamid, László Krasznahorkai, Andrea Levy, Yiyun Li, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, Sofi Oksanen, Atiq Rahimi, Salman Rushdie, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Patti Smith, Andrzej Stasiuk,and Miguel Syjuco

Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.

Celebrate the official opening of the sixth annual PEN World Voices
Festival with an extraordinary lineup of internationally acclaimed writers
from Pakistan, Hungary, China, the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland,
Afghanistan, India, Mexico, the United States, Poland, and the Philippines.
Readers include the winner of the Booker of Bookers, a journalist who
was kidnapped in Afghanistan, and Estonia’s Person of the Year for
2009. The writers will read in their own beautiful languages—with an
English translation projected on the screen behind them, so you can read
along. Don’t miss an unforgettable celebration of literature from around
the world.