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English translation: meet the author session, question and answer (Q and A) session with an author


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Polish term or phrase:spotkanie autorskie
English translation:meet the author session, question and answer (Q and A) session with an author
Entered by: Dariusz Saczuk
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00:39 Nov 24, 2011
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Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Polish term or phrase: spotkanie autorskie
opis programu festiwalu kultury:

"w programie są koncerty, spotkania autorskie, wieczory literackie, wystawy, warsztaty, filmy, dyskusje dotyczące aktualnych wydarzeń i wiele innych propozycji."
orchid8
Poland
Local time: 07:43
meet the author sessions, question and answer sessions with authors
Explanation:
Najczestsze opcje w Nowym Jorku

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Lub: Q and A's with authors

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Links and examples later, as I'm writing from my cell.

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NOW - NYS Convention
www.nownys.org/convention/convention_agenda_2011.html
A meet-the-author session will feature Jane LaTour, author of Sisters in the Brotherhood: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York, about the women ...

The Kansas Book Festival will take place on Sept. 24 at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka. This event, designed to celebrate the best of Kansas literature, will offer a variety of activities for Kansans of all ages, including meet-the-author sessions, panel discussions, book signings and sales, and a special tent with projects for children.

The Charlotte Huck Children’s Literature Festival
Focusing on children's literature grades K-8, Literature Festival 2012 will feature small group presentations by educators, librarians, authors, illustrators, and scholars in the field of children's literature. You will have an opportunity to attend small group Meet-the-Author Sessions, an informal conversation between those attending and the author, illustrator, or editor.
Unique to is an opportunity for local teachers and their students to study the work of one children’s book author or illustrator and then come to the festival to share the learning that has taken place in their classroom and to meet this author/illustrator.

CAPITAL READS - a festival of words at Cardiff Central Library
On Saturday 22nd October, from 9:45 to 5:00, we'll be celebrating words, and books, and writing, and reading, and reading groups and anything else we can cram into the day
There'll be meet the author sessions with award-winning adult, teenage and children's authors.
Come and see what our Reading Group service can offer.

The Department of English, The School of Education, and the Programs in Africana, Community, and Women’s Studies at the College of William and Mary would like to cordially invite you to save the date for a book launch for Anne Charity Hudley’s new book Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools on Thursday, December 9th from 4-7 pm at the College of William and Mary.
I will be holding a meet the author session at the The National Council of Teachers of English Conference Sunday November 27 from 10:30-11am. Download a flyer to share here: CharityHudley.Mallinson.NCTE.MeettheAuthor.flyer.pdf


Wellness author featured at Heart of New Ulm Summit - NUJournal
www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/503524.html
Dan Buettner, a New York Times Best-selling author, explorer and world-record ... Buettner will also host a meet the author session from 6:30 to 7 p.m.

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Q and A session - LINKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUNP5ql65C4
LBCC - A Question and Answer Session with author Frank X. Gaspar

school visits - Author Kathleen Pelley





www.kathleenpelley.com/school-visits.php
She finishes with a Q and A session. (45 minutes - 1 hour) ... She also emphasizes the benefits of writing, even if we don't become a "published author"...

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Connecting Conversations with David Almond - Q and A session ...





www.archive.org › Audio Archive › Community Audio
A recording of the audience Q and A session following a Connecting Conversations event held on 11 January 2009 at which children's author David Almond...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-24 03:35:30 GMT)
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Austin Teen Book Festival
austinteenbookfestival.com/
The Austin Teen Book Festival is October 1, 2011! ... Come watch the movie and stay for a Q&A session after with author, David Levithan! Books sold and signed ...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-24 03:37:32 GMT)
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Things to Do in England: Visiting The Witney Book Festival





www.essentially-england.com/things-to-do-in-england-witney-...
The celebration of books, authors and writing will include author panels, Q&A sessions, book signings, poetry readings and writers' workshops. Events will take

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Nie ma za co. ;-)
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Dariusz Saczuk
United States
Local time: 01:43
Grading comment
dzięki za pomoc
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2meet the author sessions, question and answer sessions with authorsDariusz Saczuk
5meetings with authors
Marcelina Haftka
4author's evening
annabc
3"Meet the Author" eventsBubz


  

Answers


5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
spotkania autorskie
meetings with authors


Explanation:
Często też "evenings with authors".


    Reference: http://fotofestiwal.com/2010/programme/accompanying-events/m...
    Reference: http://www.thurberhouse.org/evenings-with-authors.html
Marcelina Haftka
Poland
Local time: 07:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 8
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
author's evening


Explanation:
propozycja

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Albo "authors' evenings", jeśli ma być w liczbie mnogiej.


    Reference: http://www.myriverdistrict.com/events-calendar/view/7493.htm...
    Reference: http://www.examiner.com/children-s-books-in-milwaukee/author...
annabc
Local time: 06:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: Polish
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
"Meet the Author" events


Explanation:
czesto tez tak
pisane z malej lub duzej litery (w zaleznosci od glebokosci szacunku zapewne), najczesciej wlasnie w cudzyslowiu

najczesciej wystepuja w zestawieniu z wieczorowa pora, jak to nasze wieczorki autorskie "Meet the Author" evenings

ewentualnie "Meet the Author" presentations


http://www.google.co.nz/search?q="literature evenings"&ie=ut...

Bubz
Local time: 17:43
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 56
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40 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
meet the author sessions, question and answer sessions with authors


Explanation:
Najczestsze opcje w Nowym Jorku

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Note added at 42 mins (2011-11-24 01:22:17 GMT)
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Lub: Q and A's with authors

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 43 mins (2011-11-24 01:23:43 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Links and examples later, as I'm writing from my cell.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-24 03:15:25 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

NOW - NYS Convention
www.nownys.org/convention/convention_agenda_2011.html
A meet-the-author session will feature Jane LaTour, author of Sisters in the Brotherhood: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York, about the women ...

The Kansas Book Festival will take place on Sept. 24 at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka. This event, designed to celebrate the best of Kansas literature, will offer a variety of activities for Kansans of all ages, including meet-the-author sessions, panel discussions, book signings and sales, and a special tent with projects for children.

The Charlotte Huck Children’s Literature Festival
Focusing on children's literature grades K-8, Literature Festival 2012 will feature small group presentations by educators, librarians, authors, illustrators, and scholars in the field of children's literature. You will have an opportunity to attend small group Meet-the-Author Sessions, an informal conversation between those attending and the author, illustrator, or editor.
Unique to is an opportunity for local teachers and their students to study the work of one children’s book author or illustrator and then come to the festival to share the learning that has taken place in their classroom and to meet this author/illustrator.

CAPITAL READS - a festival of words at Cardiff Central Library
On Saturday 22nd October, from 9:45 to 5:00, we'll be celebrating words, and books, and writing, and reading, and reading groups and anything else we can cram into the day
There'll be meet the author sessions with award-winning adult, teenage and children's authors.
Come and see what our Reading Group service can offer.

The Department of English, The School of Education, and the Programs in Africana, Community, and Women’s Studies at the College of William and Mary would like to cordially invite you to save the date for a book launch for Anne Charity Hudley’s new book Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools on Thursday, December 9th from 4-7 pm at the College of William and Mary.
I will be holding a meet the author session at the The National Council of Teachers of English Conference Sunday November 27 from 10:30-11am. Download a flyer to share here: CharityHudley.Mallinson.NCTE.MeettheAuthor.flyer.pdf


Wellness author featured at Heart of New Ulm Summit - NUJournal
www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/503524.html
Dan Buettner, a New York Times Best-selling author, explorer and world-record ... Buettner will also host a meet the author session from 6:30 to 7 p.m.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-24 03:29:59 GMT)
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Q and A session - LINKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUNP5ql65C4
LBCC - A Question and Answer Session with author Frank X. Gaspar

school visits - Author Kathleen Pelley





www.kathleenpelley.com/school-visits.php
She finishes with a Q and A session. (45 minutes - 1 hour) ... She also emphasizes the benefits of writing, even if we don't become a "published author"...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-24 03:30:43 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Connecting Conversations with David Almond - Q and A session ...





www.archive.org › Audio Archive › Community Audio
A recording of the audience Q and A session following a Connecting Conversations event held on 11 January 2009 at which children's author David Almond...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-24 03:35:30 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Austin Teen Book Festival
austinteenbookfestival.com/
The Austin Teen Book Festival is October 1, 2011! ... Come watch the movie and stay for a Q&A session after with author, David Levithan! Books sold and signed ...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-24 03:37:32 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Things to Do in England: Visiting The Witney Book Festival





www.essentially-england.com/things-to-do-in-england-witney-...
The celebration of books, authors and writing will include author panels, Q&A sessions, book signings, poetry readings and writers' workshops. Events will take

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Note added at 1 day16 hrs (2011-11-25 17:12:21 GMT) Post-grading
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Nie ma za co. ;-)

Dariusz Saczuk
United States
Local time: 01:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 388
Grading comment
dzięki za pomoc

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marta Maslowska
5 hrs
  -> Dziękuję, Marta. :-)

agree  maciejm
7 hrs
  -> Dzięki, Maciej. :-)
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Changes made by editors
Nov 25, 2011 - Changes made by Dariusz Saczuk:
Edited KOG entryorchid8's old entry - "spotkanie autorskie" => "meet the author sessions, question and answer sessions with authors"
Nov 24, 2011 - Changes made by Dariusz Saczuk:
Field (specific)Poetry & Literature => General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters


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