Edith Bruck: One of the Last Great Chroniclers of the Holocaust (NWL)

Literary translator (and West Hartford resident) Jeanne Bonner will read from her translation, This Darkness Will Never End, a short story collection written in Italian by Hungarian-born writer Edith Bruck. She will also discuss the life and work of this living literary legend, who survived the Holocaust and has been publishing works of literature inspired by this brutal experience for more than a half-century. Bruck is one of about 245,000 remaining survivors of the Shoah, worldwide, according to the Claims Conference.

Jeanne Bonner is a journalist, essayist and literary translator. She won a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature in Translation Fellowship. She also won the 2018 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature. In 2021, she was awarded a short-term fellowship at the New York Public Library where she studied the works of Edith Bruck, and other Italian women writers who survived the Holocaust. Her translations have been published by the Kenyon Review, The Common, PEN America and Asymptote Journal. She studied Italian literature at Wesleyan University and has an MFA in Writing from Bennington College as well as an MA in Italian Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut. Jeanne occasionally teaches writing at Wesleyan and has taught Italian courses at UCONN.

River Bend Bookshop is our bookseller partner, books will be available for purchase, a book signing will follow the talk.

Registration required. Registration opens one month before the program at 7:00pm.