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.听 Daniel Jonas has published four collections of poems including Os Fantasmas Inquilinos (The Phantom Tenants) and 厂辞苍贸迟辞苍辞 (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. Jo茫o 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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