VenueCity of Asylum/Pittsburgh 

Date11/07/2013 

Time7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenreFiction 

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Cost $0.00
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Description and Reader Names: Pittsburgh Literary Calendar is sponsoring a special networking reception for area writers before this reading. If you would like to attend the reception & reading, please call 412-323-0278 to reserve.

Ivo Victoria (Belgium) took an unusual path to becoming a novelist, working in the music industry as a promoter and in a series of rock bands as a singer and guitar player until 2008. He began to to turn to writing around 2005 and made his literary debut in 2009 with the bittersweet coming-of-age comedy, How I Never Won the Tour de France for Under Twelves (and Regret It). In it the character Ivo Victoria returns chastened to the Antwerp suburb he left twenty years before, where as a child he was known as an incorrigible show-off. The book was short listed for the Dutch Debut Prize and long listed for the prestigious AKO Literature Prize. His second novel, Fortunately We’re Powerless, was very different – an intense family drama. The novel was shortlisted for the prestigious Libris Literature Prize and again longlisted for the AKO Literature Prize. Currently Ivo Victoria is working on a third novel, entitled Fire Thieves, to be published in March 2014. He also writes short stories and columns for various newspapers and (literary) magazines.

Román Antopolsky (USA) was born in Buenos Aires in 1976. He has published three books of poetry and one book of prose and numerous translations of literature and philosophy from various languages across the Americas. His own writing has been translated into English, Portuguese, and Dutch. In addition to winning City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s juried Pittsburgh Prize, Román read at the 2008 Jazz Poetry Concert, as part of “What is Home?”

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