An Evening with Hamid Ismailov

Hosted in partnership with Northwest Translators & Interpreters Society (NOTIS).

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Folio and NOTIS are pleased to invite you to join us for a unique in-person evening with award-winning Uzbek novelist, journalist and poet Hamid Ismailov, in conversation with Northwest translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega. 

The pair will dive into Ismailov's career as a novelist and a journalist, life as an author in exile, his experience as a writer whose books are better known in translation and how the prospect of translation affects his choices as a novelist. The evening will conclude with a multilingual reading from one of his recent novels and a wine reception with the author.

Ismailov's novel The Railway, originally written before he left Uzbekistan, was…