May 19, 2020
Let's connect our global literary community in a time of closed
borders. Hear World Editions authors Adam Dalva, Esther Gerritsen,
Adeline Dieudonné, Pierre Jarawan, Sisonke Msimang, and Amin
Maalouf read from their works, discuss the current situation in
their countries, and talk about what books mean to them during
Covid-19.
Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books,
The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Guardian. He teaches Creative
Writing at Rutgers University and is a book critic for Guernica
Magazine. Adam has received fellowships from the Atlantic Center
for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. He is a graduate of
NYU’s MFA Program, where he was a Veterans Writing Workshop Fellow.
Adam’s bestselling comic book, Olivia Twist, was published by Dark
Horse in Fall 2018.
Esther Gerritsen is a Dutch novelist, columnist, and playwright.
She made her literary debut in 2000. She is one of the most
established, widely read, and highly praised authors in the
Netherlands, and makes regular appearances on radio programs and at
literary festivals. Esther Gerritsen had the honor of writing the
Dutch Book Week gift in 2016, which had a print run of 700,000
copies. In 2014 she was awarded the Frans Kellendonk Prize for her
oeuvre. Her book Craving was made into a film in 2018, and film
rights have been sold for her novel Roxy, which was just published
in English.
Adeline Dieudonné is a Belgian author and lives in Brussels. Real
Life, her debut novel, was published in France in Autumn 2018 and
has since been awarded most of the major French literary prizes:
the prestigious Prix du Roman FNAC, the Prix Rossel, the Prix
Renaudot des Lycéens, the Prix Goncourt―Le Choix de la Belgique,
the Prix des Étoiles du Parisien, the Prix Première Plume, and the
Prix Filigrane, a French prize for a work of high literary quality
with wide appeal. Dieudonné also performs as a stand-up
comedian.
Pierre Jarawan was born in 1985 to a Lebanese father and a German
mother and moved to Germany with his family at the age of three.
Inspired by his father’s imaginative bedtime stories, he started
writing at the age of thirteen. He has won international prizes as
a slam poet, and in 2016 was named Literature Star of the Year by
the daily newspaper Abendzeitung. Jarawan received a literary
scholarship from the City of Munich (the Bayerischer
Kunstförderpreis) for The Storyteller, which went on to become a
bestseller and booksellers’ favorite in Germany and the
Netherlands.
Sisonke Msimang is the author of Always Another Country: A memoir
of exile and home. She is a South African writer whose work is
focussed on race, gender and democracy. She has written for a range
of international publications including the New York Times, the
Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek and Al Jazeera.
Born in Beirut in 1949, Amin Maalouf has lived in France since
1976. After studying sociology and economics, Maalouf joined the
Lebanese daily An-Nahar, for which he travelled the world covering
numerous events, from the fall of the Ethiopian monarchy to the
last battle of Saigon. Forced to emigrate by the war in Lebanon, he
settled in Paris, where he resumed journalism, and from where he
started to travel again, from Mozambique to Iran and from Argentina
to the Balkans. He became editor of the international edition of
An-Nahar, then editor-in-chief of the weekly Jeune Afrique, before
giving up all his posts to dedicate himself to literature.
All authors' books available from your favorite indie bookstores,
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