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The National Book Critics Circle has just announced this year's NBCC Emerging Critics. The Cheuse Center is honored that this year’s class are recognized by a fellowship named in honor of the late NPR critic Alan Cheuse.

We are pleased to announce that the Cheuse Center will participate in the Annapolis Book Festival on Saturday, April 28. The Annapolis Book Festival is a free, day-long event in its 16th year that attracts over 3,000 visitors to the Key School in Annapolis, Maryland. The Cheuse Center is honored to be partnering with ABF on an exciting event that begins at 2:00.

On Thursday, March 29, the Cheuse Center welcomes back Mikkel Rosengaard. Mikkel and Cheuse Center director Matthew Davis will be in conversation at 6:30 at East City Bookshop at 645 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, in Washington, DC.

On Tuesday, March 27, the Cheuse Center welcomes Kurdish translator Kareem Abdulrahman. Kareem will be in conversation with Slate Magazine’s foreign affairs columnist Joshua Keating at 7:00 at Solid State Books, 600 H Street, NE in Washington, DC. They will discuss Kareem’s remarkable translation of the Kurdish novel I Stared at the Night of the City, the first novel ever translated from Kurdish to English.

On Monday, March 26, the Cheuse Center and George Mason University will welcome Spanish novelist Jesus Carrasco. Carrasco will be in conversation with local novelist Gabrielle Fuentes at 7:00 at DuPont Underground, 1500 19th Street, NW in Washington, DC

Mikkel Rosengaard, one of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center's visiting international writers, received a stellar review in the NY Times for his first novel, The Invention of Ana - edited while he was a fellow at Mason. He will read from the novel on Thurs, March 29, at 6:30 at East City Bookshop in Washington, D.C.

The Embassy of Finland in Washington D.C. invites you to a unique evening of photography, literature and discussion on freedom of the press Monday, November 6, at 6:30 p.m. 

As part of his residency at the Cheuse Center, Danish novelist and art essayist Mikkel Rosengaard will be speaking about how the pervasiveness of digital culture is impacting literature and visual art.

The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center, in conjunction with Sixth & I Synagogue and Politics and Prose Bookstore, welcomes acclaimed writer Amy Tan. Amy will be in conversation with Deborah Tannen about her new book, Where the Past Begins.

THIS WEEK: The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center is pleased to welcome our first writer in residence, Catalan writer Toni Sala. Join him September 20 to learn more about the upcoming Catalan independence vote.