Daniel Jonas: Poetry Reading (Bilingual Portuguese andEnglish)
Writer in Residence with the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Daniel Jonas will read a selection of his poetry in Portuguese, to be accompanied by a reading of his work translated into English.Ìý Daniel Jonas has published four collections of poems including Os Fantasmas Inquilinos (The Phantom Tenants) and ³§´Ç²Ôó³Ù´Ç²Ô´Ç (Dreamtone), which was awarded the P.E.N. prize in 2008. He has translated into Portuguese Shakespeare, Waugh, Huysmans, Pirandello, Milton and Auden and is now working on a translation of selected poems by William Wordsworth. In 2008, he debuted as a playwright with the play Nenhures (Nowhere) for Teatro Bruto. He has been working with the S. João National Theatre in Porto, and he has co-directed the dramaturgy of the plays The Merchant of Venice and the stage reading of Paradise Lost.
Refreshments at 5:00; Reading at 5:30.
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