From the attached poster:
"Three internationally-acclaimed writers read from their works and participate in a roundtable discussion on writing in a globalized world.

David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia and moved to Canada when he was six. A writer and filmmaker, he is the author of Natasha (2004) and The Free World (2011). His work has been translated into fifteen languages, broadcast on NPR, BBC and the CBC, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2005 and 2006. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow, and is currently a fellow at the Harvard/Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2010 he was included in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue. His feature film Victoria Day premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.

Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960. She studied Russian literature at Waseda University , then moved to Germany where she earned a doctorate in German literature. Writing in German and Japanese, Tawada publishes poetry, essays, fiction, and plays. Her work has been featured in journals and anthologies in Japan, Germany, France, China, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Among Tawada’s awards for her contributions to German and Japanese culture are the Gunzō Prize for New Writers (1991), the Akutagawa Prize (1993), the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize (1996) and the Goethe Medal (2005). Tawada commutes between Tokyo and Berlin.

Marvin Victor, a painter, writer, and film director, was born in 1981 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he lived until the earthquake of 2010. He currently resides in New York, where he has recently shown his paintings and completed his latest short film. His debut novel Corps mêlés (2011) is considered to be the first novel of the post-earthquake period and announced Victor as a major new voice in Haitian and Caribbean writing. This novel was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de la Société des gens de lettres and was a finalist in the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie. He is currently completing his second novel.

Friday 1 March 2013
FSU Turnbull Conference Center
3:00-5:00 p.m.

This event is free of charge and open to the public.

Books by the authors will be available for purchase and signing at the conference venue.

Sponsored by The Winthrop-King Institute for French and Francophone Studies and The Council on Research and Creativity at Florida State University. For additional information, contact Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya at lwakamiya@fsu.edu or (850)644-8391.