WOJCIECH JAGIELSKI AT PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE
Monday, April 30, 2012 - Monday, May 7, 2012
New York, NY and Washington, DC
Anyone who came strolling along Nile Avenue when one of these conversations between visiting and local journalists was under way would be witness to an unusual transmigration of souls and a magical form of metabolism. The smug look that invariably irritated the locals would gradually disappear from the foriegners' white faces. Masks donned out of vanity, but also to hide weakness, make an impression and gain an advantage would slowly slip, and the facial expressions - pleasant, but a little superior - would grow humble and come down to earth, no longer challenging, but ingratiating and fawning instead. - Wojciech Jagielski, The Night Wanderers Long-form journalism constitutes some of Poland's best contemporary writing, following the tradition of legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski.Wojciech Jagielskiis one of the leading exponents of this genre of creative non-fiction, and he will be presenting The Night Wanderers: Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army his latest book from Seven Stories Press at this year's PEN World Voices Festival and in Washington, DC after the festival. Among other events, Mr. Jagielski will participate in a panel on children's rights organized in recognition of the Year of Janusz Korczak, celebrating the spirit of Poland's great educator, writer, and defender of the rights of children. The eighth annual PEN World Voices Festival, taking place April 30-May 6, 2012, assembled under the aegis of the PEN American Center - the largest branch of the world's oldest literary and human rights organization - presents over two hundred writers, translators, intellectuals, and scholars from around the world in readings, performances, discussions, film screenings, and workshops about today's literary world and the intersections between literature, politics, and the changing world of publishing, in venues throughout New York City. Following his events in New York, he will be reading and signing books at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC, the evening of May 7, 2012.
