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La Maison Française welcomes

PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature


Wednesday, April 28 – 1:00 p.m.

Location: La Maison Française,
16 Washington Mews (at University Pl. and E 8th Street)


Life, Literature, and Betty Blue

PHILIPPE DJIAN
Novelist; author of Assassins; Frictions; Impuretés; Unforgivable;
37°2 le matin
(published in the U.S. as Betty Blue and adapted
for film by Jean-Jacques Beineix)





in conversation with


A.M. HOMES
Novelist

Co-sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy



Thursday, April 29 – 7:00 p.m.


Adaptation: From Page to Screen

What is lost—and what is gained—in the translation of fiction to film?

Philippe Djian, Barry Gifford, Richard Price, Jean-Philippe Toussaint;
Directed by
Francine Prose

Location: Jack H. Skirball Center , 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South)

What is lost—and what is gained—in the translation of fiction to film?


French writers Philippe Djian, whose book was the basis for the film Betty Blue, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint, whose work has been compared to the films of Jim Jarmusch, are joined by American novelists and screenwriters Barry Gifford, whose Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, celebrates its 20th birthday this year, and Richard Price, whose book Clockers was directed by Spike Lee for the cinema. Author and former PEN American Center president Francine Prose, whose work has been adapted for both the stage and the screen, directs the action.



Tickets: $15 / $12 PEN members and current NYU I.D holders (includes faculty and staff) - 212.352.3101
or www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu
or in person at Skirball Center Shagan Box Office 566 LaGuardia Place,
Tue – Sat, 12 - 6 p.m.

Co-sponsored by Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy


The full PEN World Voices schedule (April 26 - May 2) is available at www.pen.org.
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