A CELEBRATION OF THE 150TH BIRTHDAY OF SWEDEN'S LEADING FEMALE 19TH CENTURY WRITER AND OF THE CONTINUING TRADITION OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE IN SWEDEN AND SCANDINAVIA

All programs listed below will be held at Deutsches Haus, at 420 W. 116th Street, New York City (between Morningside Drive and Amsterdam Avenue, on the Columbia University campus). 

7:00 p.m., Friday, March 10 

A staged reading of Victoria Benedictsson's play Den bergtagna (Spellbound), translated by Verne Moberg and directed by Robert Greer. 

1:00 p.m., Saturday, March 11 

Welcome and introduction to the program and the new Web site on Victoria Benedictsson, by Verne Moberg, Lecturer in Scandinavian Languages, the Swedish Program, Columbia University. (In commemoration of Benedictsson's contribution to women's literature, and of the international significance of Swedish and women's writing generally, a home page will be mounted on the World Wide Web.)

1:20 p.m., Saturday, March 11 

Talk by Dr. Christina Sjöblad on Swedish women's writing and the legacy of the literature of Victoria Benedictsson. 

2:00 p.m., Saturday, March 11 

"Nordic Women Artists at the Turn of the Century." Slide show/talk on women artists in Scandinavia in the late 19th century. By Dorothy Berinstein, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 

3:00 p.m., Saturday, March 11 

Readings of new translations of fiction by several contemporary Swedish women authors, including: 

7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 11 

Staged reading of Teorier (Theories), by Victoria Benedictsson. Translated by Verne Moberg, directed by Robert Greer.

For further information, call the Swedish Program at (212) 854-7859; fax (212) 854-5381; or e-mail vam1@columbia.edu.


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