The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv and Israel - Romania Writers' Association are inviting poets, editors, literary critics and the public to the Round Table entitled “A literary evening - the poetry of Denisa Comănescu”. The event will take place on the 15th of May 2012, 8 p.m. at the Israeli Writers’ House in Tel Aviv* and it is included in the monthly program of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel.
Through this event, The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv continues its series of projects dedicated to the popularization of the Romanian literature in Israel, as well as to the translations from Romanian into Hebrew and to the establishment of new professional contacts between modern Romanian and Israeli writers.
Partners: Hebrew Writers Association in Israel (chairman: Hertzl Hakak), The Israel-Romania Writers' Association (president: Riri Sylvia Manor), The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv (director: Gina Pană)
Guest of honour: Denisa Comănescu
Moderator: Riri Sylvia Manor
Free entrance, limited seats available.
* 6 Kaplan Str, Tel Aviv; the event will be held in English and Hebrew.
PROGRAM
Greetings:
Hertzl Hakak, president, the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel
Gina Pană, director, the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv
Round table: Discussing Denisa Comanescu’s poetry
Participants:
Denisa Comănescu, general manager, Humanitas Fiction Publishing House
Marlena Braeşter, professor, Haifa University
Miron Haim Izakson, professor, Bar Ilan University
Literary moments*:
Denisa Comănescu & Nicu Nitai reciting the poem “Returning from Exile”
Other works will be read by: Ephraim Bauch, Sabina Messeg, Menahem Falik, Hava Pinhas Cohen, Rony Somek, Amir Or, Israel Bar Kochav, Tsipi Ben-Yair Sharour.
* The poems have been translated in Hebrew by Marlena Braeşter.