Baboon Author Events with Naja Marie Aidt and Translator Denise Newman
Oakland | San Francisco
Naja Marie Aidt reads from her lauded book Baboon at two of our favorite Bay Area indie bookstores: The Booksmith in San Francisco, and Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland. Aidt, who is a leading Scandinavian writer, and who received the Nordic Council Literary Prize for Baboon, reads from these tense, explosive, surreal stories.
Aidt will be joined on stage by translator and poet Denise Newman for a discussion of these uniquely powerful stories. Copies of Baboon will be available for purchase, and Aidt and Newman will be happy to sign.
Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of seven collections of poetry and five short story collections, including Baboon, which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Denise Newman is an award-winning poet and translator. Her fourth poetry collection Future People was published by Apogee Press in 2016. Newman has translated two novels by Inger Christensen—The Painted Room and Azorno. Her most recent translation, Baboon, by the Danish writer Naja Marie Aidt (Two Lines Press), won the 2015 PEN Translation Award and an NEA Fellowship.