A Writers Night with Michael Favala Goldman

Join us for A Writers Night on Thursday, April 21, 6:45 – 7:45pm at the Longmeadow Adult Center at 211 Maple Rd, in Longmeadow, MA, where Longmeadow Adult Center and Straw Dogs Writers Guild will present “A Writers Night” with award winning poet, writer, translator, carpenter, and jazz musician Michael Favala Goldman. His translation of Danish author, Tove Ditlevsen’s memoirs “The Copenhagen Trilogy,” was recognized by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2021.

From the New York Times 1/19/2021:
The first two volumes were translated by Tiina Nunnally, the final one — the most sublime and harrowing — by Michael Favala Goldman. Now published together in one handsome volume as “The Copenhagen Trilogy,” they are a portrait of an artist and a portrait of an addict — and the product of a terrifying talent. Ditlevsen, who died in 1976, is beloved in her native Denmark; today her work is taught in schools and her life is the subject of reverent plays. Danish editions of her work often feature her photograph on the cover — her head cocked, a cigarette between her fingers, looking amused and conspiratorial. “Loved by generations of women and put down by generations of men,” the Danish writer Dorthe Nors has described her.

Please come to hear this amazing writer read from this book and his newly translated, “The Trouble With Happiness,” answer questions, and speak to the life of a writer.