Talk
French writer Jakuta Alikavazovic (L'Olivier), British writer Claire-Louise Bennett (Fitzcarraldo), German writer Esther Kinsky (Fitzcarraldo) and Music & Literature editor (and former Man Booker International judge) Daniel Medin will be discussing non-narrative fiction in European writing today and the importance of translation in a salon style event including readings and conversations.
Talk and Live Drawing
Pénélope Bagieu’s graphic novel Brazen (Penguin) presents a series of portraits of 30 incredible women such as Josephine Baker, Peggy Guggenheim or Tove Jansson. Penelope will be discussing these rebel ladies with Mary and Bryan Talbot, who revisit the life of anarchist and Communarde Louise Michel in the graphic novel The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia (Jonathan Cape).
They will be joined by DJ Iko Chérie for some Little Trouble Girls sets.
Chaired by Paul Gravett.
Talk
Journalist and critic Boyd Tonkin, whose 100 Best Novels in Translation is forthcoming in June (Galileo), will kick off this inaugural event for the translation strand of the festival with a conversation with Lucie Campos (head of the Book Office at the Institut français) about French and Francophone titles old and new. Followed by a selection of pitches by emerging translators about the French language books they are most excited about this year, discussed by translator Ros Schwartz and editor Ellie Steel.
Please contact books@institutfrancais.org.uk to attend
With the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom
Film
dir. Michel Hazanavicius, 2017, 107 mins
Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the most renowned filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky. Happy, in love, magnetic, they marry. But the film’s reception unleashes in Jean-Luc a profound self-examination amplified by the events of May '68.
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Talk
In A Walk Through Paris (Verso) essayist and publisher Eric Hazan takes us through the radical history of Paris, city of the May 1968 uprising, but also of Robespierre, the Commune and Jean-Paul Sartre. Drawing on his own life story and experiences during the Sixties, Eric Hazan will be in conversation with Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse. Women Walk the City.
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Eric Hazan, A Walk Through Paris, translated by David Fernbach (Verso, March 2018) |
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Lauren Elkin, Flâneuse. Women Walk the City (Vintage, July 2017) |
Talk
The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Mitchell Abidor, author of May Made Me (Pluto), will be discussing their legacy with Novara senior editor James Butler.
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Mitchell Abidor, May Made Me (Pluto, May 2018) |
Photo Exhibition by Philippe Gras
In May 1968, Parisian students marched down the street in protests that quickly spread throughout France. The country came to a near standstill. This exhibition of works by late French photographer Philippe Gras tells the story of May ’68, fifty years after the event. Juliette Desplat from the National Archives will give an introduction to the exhibition on 14 May.
Free access to the exhibition during La Médiathèque opening hours until 19 May
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