Literary Series: Etgar Keret + The Nomads

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Join us for an evening of casual dining and serious literature featuring authors Etgar Keret, Zilka Joseph and Tamar Boyadijan.
Hailed as the voice of young Israel and earning high praise from Salman Rushdie as well as his contemporaries, Etgar Keret has received international acclaim for his short stories. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the Paris Review, among many other publications. Karet is a regular contributor to This American Life and more than forty short movies have been based on his stories, one of which won the American MTV Prize (1998).
Zilka Joseph’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, MQR, Mantis, and Review Americana. Lands I Live In and What Dread, her chapbooks, were nominated for a PEN and a Pushcart award respectively. Her book Sharp Blue Search of Flame (Wayne State University Press) was a finalist for the Forward Indie Book Award. She has a BA in English and a BEd (a post-graduate teaching degree), from the University of Calcutta, India, an MA in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Tamar Boyadjian’s research and teaching interests focus on medieval literature and culture. Additional areas of specialization include Jerusalem in medieval literature; the crusades and crusading literature; Mediterranean studies; medieval theology and historiography; and literary intersections between Europe and the Middle East in the medieval period. Her current book project, The City Lament: Jerusalem in Crusading Narrative, examines the re-presentation of the city of Jerusalem in narratives produced during the crusades in the English, French, Latin, Arabic, and Armenian traditions. She teaches medieval literature (and the literature of other people and cultures) as well as creative writing at Michigan State University. She is also involved with the Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan.
MOCAD is pleased to partner with The Nomads Reading Series for the presentation of this program. Founded and curated by Stephanie Jean, The Nomads Reading Series is a literary caravan of sorts in the Greater Detroit area where writers, artists, and members of various immigrant communities are invited to read in their native tongue and in English as a way to tackle the deep history of segregation in Michigan.