Oxford Translation Day – A Discussion and Poetry Reading of Vaan Nguyen’s The Truffle Eye

the truffle eye book cover

Join Adriana X. Jacobs to discuss and read poems from her translation of Vaan Nguyen’s The Truffle Eye. Vaan Nguyen has been described as "a veritable juggler of Hebrew," a poet whose work radically remixes world classics and pop culture, the personal and the political, past and present. Born in 1982 in Israel to refugees of the Vietnam War, Nguyen's debut collection The Truffle Eye addresses questions of identity and cultural legacy from what she has described as "points of emotion and shock." Her poems travel far and wide, between Tel Aviv and Hanoi, taking in views of Manhattan, Paris, Milan, Salzburg, Pasadena and more. Through these movements, Nguyen reflects on how our lives take shape in the daily migrations we make between lovers, family, work, and the places we call home.

This event is part of Oxford Translation Day, organised by Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT).

Find out more and register for the event on the OCCT website.

(Register by 10 June)