Category: Talk

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Talk

Literature meets science in this discussion with Oulipo president and 2020 Goncourt Prize Winner Hervé Le Tellier and popular science writer Brian Clegg. They will share their views on the supposedly unbridgeable gap between the arts and science, reason and intuition, and fact and fiction, in a conversation chaired by translator Adriana Hunter.

This event has been cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Related / Latest Publications:

	Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly translated by Adriana Hunter (Penguin Books, 2022)
	Brian Clegg, What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You (Icon Books, 2021)

Talk

In a Q&A session with Professor Patrick Baert, Dr. Damian Catani will present his biography of one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, Louis-Ferdinand Céline. This book sheds light on Céline’s ground-breaking novels, which remain fresh and urgent today despite its author’s abhorrent political views. As the first English-language biography of Céline in over two decades, this book explores new material and reminds us why the author belongs in the pantheon of modern greats.

Related / Latest Publication:

Damian Catani, Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the extreme (Reaktion Books, 2021)

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Talk & Readings

Best selling author with her teenage debut novel Just Like Tomorrow (Kiffe kiffe demain), Faïza Guène has quickly become an outspoken French-Algerian voice. She will talk about her latest novel Discretion with her translator, Sarah Ardizzone. Seeking to “fix the offence of forgetting”, Faïza Guène will address the hardships of motherhood in the context of immigration.

As part of Voices of Algeria
 
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See also:

• 143 Sahara Street + Elles
• Their Algeria introduced by Faïza Guène
• The Outsiders: Kamel Daoud, Ben Okri & Agnès Poirier
• At War for Algeria

Related / Latest Publication:

Faïza Guène, Discretion translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Saqi Books, 2022)

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Talk & Readings

Join award-winning Mauritian-French author Nathacha Appanah in conversation with the journalist and director of the European Literature Network Rosie Goldsmith. Marking the translation of her latest novel The Sky Above the Roof, the writer will share her thoughts on her poetic approach to relationships and the narratives of displacement, separation and rebuilding.

Live reading by Olivia Ross

This event has been cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Related / Latest Publication:

Nathacha Appanah, The Sky Above the Roof, translated by Geoffrey Strachan (Quercus Publishing, 2022)