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"No Poetry About War": Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh and Tess Lewis

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents readings by acclaimed authors Sasha Marianna Salzmann (currently the Max Kade writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU) and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, from their latest works, followed by a conversation – with a thematic focus on writing in times of turmoil and war – with writer and translator Tess Lewis. To read Sasha Marianna Salzmann's recent essay "No Poetry About War," please click here: https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as... About the speakers: Sasha Marianna Salzmann is a playwright, novelist, curator, and director. They were the co-founder of the culture magazine freitext and the artistic director of the experimental stage STUDIO Я. Salzmann also co-founded NIDS – New Institute for Drama, where they gave workshops on political writing. Their theatrical work is translated, shown, and awarded in over 20 countries. Their essays appear in newspapers such as Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Züricher Zeitung. In 2017, Salzmann finished their first novel, Beside Myself, which was translated into 16 languages and won two major German awards for best debut novel. Beside Myself was on the short list for the German Book Prize, Premio Strega Europeo, and Central European Literature Award ANGELUS. In 2020, Sasha Marianna Salzmann was the winner of the Art Prize in category performing arts of the Akademie der Künste. In 2021, their second novel Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein (Glorious People) was nominated for the German Book Prize and won Preis der Literaturhäuser and Hermann Hesse Literature Award in 2022. In 2023, Salzmann´s essay “The Great Hunger and the Long Silence” was shortlisted for the WORTMELDUNGEN Literature Award. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author, most recently, of the story collection, American Estrangement, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. His memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, was selected as one of the 10 best books of the year by Dwight Garner of The New York Times, and his story collection, Brief Encounters With the Enemy, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fiction Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Best American Short Stories, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction and a Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers’ fiction fellowship. He teaches creative writing at NYU, where he received an outstanding teaching award. Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Peter Handke, Walter Benjamin, Klaus Merz, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Christine Angot, Pascal Bruckner, and Jean-Luc Benoziglio. She has been awarded grants from PEN USA, PEN UK, and the NEA, a Max Geilinger Translation Grant for her translation of Philippe Jaccottet, the ACFNY Translation Prize and the 2017 PEN Translation Prize for her translation of the novel Angel of Oblivion by the Austrian writer Maja Haderlap, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She has served on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle and as Co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee. She has been an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review since 2003. Her essays and reviews have appeared in a number of journals and newspapers including Bookforum, Partisan Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Hudson Review, World Literature Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald and The American Scholar. Tess Lewis was a 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. “No Poetry About War: An Evening with Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Valzhyna Mort, and Ulrich Baer” is funded by the DAAD from funds of the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) and presented with the generous support of the Max Kade Foundation.