Literary Translator Russell Valentino to Give Reading

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Russell Valentino

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Program in Creative Writing and Translation will host literary translator Russell Valentino as our spring 2015 Walton Reader in Translation, 7 p.m. March 2 in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main. This reading is free and open to the public.

Valentino has translated seven books of literature from Italian, Russian and Croatian, and he is the author of two scholarly monographs. His most recent books include the co-edited (with Esther Allen and Sean Cotter) volume "The Man Between: Michael Henry Heim & a Life in Translation," and the monograph "The Woman in the Window." He served as editor-in-chief at The Iowa Review from 2009 to 2013 and is currently president of the American Literary Translators Association, senior editor at Autumn Hill Books, and professor and chair of Slavic and East European languages and cultures at Indiana University.

This reading is made possible by the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English and the Walton Family Foundation.