{"title": "Translation Salon: Kafkaesque", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The London Library", "address": "St James's Square 14, SW1Y 4LG London", "price": "From £8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/the-londonlibrary/items/758158/availability/-12732753/book/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation"], "description": "Translation Salon: Kafkaesque is an in-person talk in the New Room at The London Library, with a bar opening beforehand. It is the inaugural edition of the Library's new Translation Salon, a series exploring language and the art of translation, held in partnership with the Jewish Literary Foundation. Translator and host Daniel Hahn speaks with Maïa Hruska, whose first book, Kafkaesque, tells the story of the translators who saved Franz Kafka's work from oblivion, from Primo Levi and Milena Jesenská to Bruno Schulz and Jorge Luis Borges. The evening invites conversation about Kafka's work, translation and some of the greatest minds, tragedies and absurdities of the twentieth century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/translation-salon-kafkaesque-39393/", "official_url": "https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/translation-salon-kafkaesque", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ce23fdd61b6ea4cd6280bd351dc55f3a36674f44fe062e6e85c917eebd6c122-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The London Library", "address": "St James's Square 14, SW1Y 4LG London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "10.11| Spotkanie Biblioteki Polskiej POSK: Kazimierz Moczarski „Rozmowy z katem”", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Polish Social and Cultural Association", "address": "King Street 238-246, W6 0RF London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature"], "description": "An event in the series of the Polish Library at POSK, held in the library's reading room. Elżbieta Moczarska will talk about the English edition of Kazimierz Moczarski's book \"Rozmowy z katem\", published in English as \"Conversations with an Executioner: '255 Days with the Nazi who Destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto'\", translated by Sean Gasper Bye. 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It brings together Sezgin Boynik, founder of the Helsinki-based press, poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky, and artist and curator Nikolay Karabinovych, moderated by Isabel Jacobs. They will discuss the eight-volume bie-bao series on the Futurist poet and typographic artist Iliazd, and the new publication of Shop-Signs in Kharkiv by the 1920s Ukrainian modernist Maik Yohansen. Topics range from Futurism to language politics, poetry to typography, alongside other titles such as a new translation of Varlam Shalamov's The Twenties.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rab-rab-three-men-in-a-tub-of-publishing-avant-garde-literat-64276/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6658", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5b0786d8cb77c96da1cbca758175a460df1a309a4b557d97cc6b463c84a5a47-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Man with Many Names: Georgi Gospodinov in conversation with Lea Ypi", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Librería", "address": "Hanbury Street 65, E1 5JP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://subscribe.libreria.io/shop/further-recommendations/OA24X422MOL2DWAJOZSLKPAV", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/short-story"], "description": "An evening talk at a London bookshop in which the writer Georgi Gospodinov discusses his work with Lea Ypi. Gospodinov, who won the International Booker Prize for Time Shelter, presents The Man with Many Names, his new collection of short stories translated by Angela Rodel. The conversation explores memory, imagination and the elastic possibilities of fiction, through unsettling premises such as inventing an entire life with a stranger in an airport café. His stories move from the Balkans to the moon and beyond, finding the extraordinary in apparently ordinary lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-man-with-many-names-georgi-gospodinov-in-conversation-wi-41632/", "official_url": "https://libreria.io/the-man-with-many-names-georgi-gospodinov-in-conversation-with-lea-ypi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db505f2fb83627b8835a7ff4b03ec3fa891a0ff2e1eff0dabca78a8bdec1ca61-1200.webp"}, {"title": "07.11| Salon Artystyczny POSK", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T20:00:00Z", "place": "Polish Social and Cultural Association", "address": "King Street 238-246, W6 0RF London", "price": "Wstęp wolny", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "art", "community"], "description": "Salon Artystyczny POSK is an artistic salon evening held in the Atrium of the Polish Social and Cultural Association in London, where admission is free. 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