The memoirs of George Ellenbogen and Evelyn Shakir

(New French and German Editions)

November 2025

Europe Tour and Memoirs Readings with stops in Paris, Bamberg, Salzburg and Venice

• Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, 11/18/2025 at 7:30pm, 29 rue d’Ulm , 75230 Paris (with the participation of Canadian Centers), Reading from poems and memoir
• University of Bamberg U5, 11/20/2025, Reading and discussion of Jewish American Culture
• University of Salzburg, 11/25/2025 at 9:15 am, Reading and discussion of life writing online
• University of Salzburg, 11/25/2025 at 3 pm, Reading and discussion of fact and fiction in memoir writing
• Venice (TBD)

2025 Spring READING

• Virtual readings of poetry and memoirs from the work of George Ellenbogen and Evelyn Shakir for Prof. Helene Aji at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, April 11, 2025

AWARDS

• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency 2023
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency 2020 

2020 READINGS

• Osta Café, Sligo, February 21, 2020 

2015 READINGS

• Orientale College. University of Naples. Creativity?, April  2015 
• Bamberg University, Germany. Personal Writing, Memoir, April 2015
• University of Siegen, Germany. Personal Writing, Memoir, April 2015
• Grolier Book Shop, Cambridge, MA. December 11, 2015 
• University of Giessen