About this Event
Join us for a special evening with two remarkable writers and thinkers, Marina Temkina and José Manuel Prieto, as we celebrate the release of Marina Temkina’s new bilingual book Komiks on Ethnic Themes, accompanied by her original drawings and published by TipTop Street (2025).
Marina Temkina, born in Leningrad and long based in New York, is a poet, visual artist, and psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist whose work spans poetry, conceptual art, and immigrant narratives. Her books have been published in the U.S., France, and Russia, including Kalancha, Canto Immigranto, Nenagladnye posobia, and What Do You Want. Her new book continues her exploration of identity, migration, Jewish memory, and visual language.
She will be joined by José Manuel Prieto, a Havana-born novelist, scholar, translator, and professor at Seton Hall University. Prieto’s novels Encyclopedia of Life in Russia and Livadia have been translated into multiple languages, and his literary translations include works by Akhmatova, Brodsky, Platonov, and Nabokov.
Together, they will talk about writing across languages, immigrant experience, and the intersection of poetry, image, and history.
? December 5
Door opens: 7pm
Event start: 7:30pm
?️ Free
? BYOB
Kvartira Books, 731 Washington Ave, Brooklyn 11238
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kvartira Books (formerly MyBiblioteka), 731 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, United States
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