Minna Proctor, 2023-24 Walton Visiting Writer in Translation, to Read in Fayetteville

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Literary translator Minna Proctor

The U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is proud to welcome author Minna Proctor as its 2023-24 Walton Visiting Writer in Translation.

Proctor will read from her work at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, in the Home Economics Auditorium (HOEC 0102) on campus. The event is free and open to the public, and a book signing with Proctor will follow the reading. Masks are encouraged.

Minna Zallman Proctor is an editor, award-winning translator and writer. She is the author of the essay collection Landslide: True Stories (Catapult, 2017); Do You Hear What I Hear? (Viking, 2005), an exploration of religious calling; and co-author with Bethany Beardslee of I Sang the Unsingable: My Life in 20th Century Music (University of Rochester Press, 2017). Her recent translations from Italian include Fleur Jaeggy's These Possible Lives (New Directions, 2017), a sentence of which was the subject of a chapter in Brian Dillon's Suppose a Sentence, and Natalia Ginzburg's Happiness, As Such (New Directions, 2019), shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of Cesare Pavese's existentialist interpretation of Greek myths, Dialoghi con Leucó, is forthcoming from Archipelago.

Each year, the Walton Visiting Writers series in the Program in Creative Writing and Translation brings esteemed authors in poetry, fiction and literary translation to the U of A to give free public readings and to work with graduate students in the creative writing M.F.A. program.

Past Walton Visiting Writers include Robin Becker, Idra Novey, Kate Briggs, Brandon Hobson, Rachel Mennies, Patrick Cottrell and Sarah Gerard.

This event is made possible by the Program in Creative Writing and Translation, the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, the Walton Family Foundation and the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professorship in Creative Writing.