Join Archipelago Books for an evening of conversation with author Ivan Vladislavić and Columbia University’s Ameya Tripathi. In addition to discussion, there will be readings from Vladislavić’s newest title, The Folly.

Ivan Vladislavić was born in Pretoria in 1957 and lives in Johannesburg, where he works as a writer and editor. His books include the novels The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View and Double Negative, and a compendium of short stories titled Flashback Hotel. In 2006, he published Portrait with Keys, a sequence of documentary texts on Johannesburg. He has edited books on architecture and art, and sometimes works with artists and photographers. TJ/Double Negative, a joint project with photographer David Goldblatt, received the 2011 Kraszna-Krausz Award for best photography book. His work has also won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Alan Paton Award, the University of Johannesburg Prize, and, most recently, a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for fiction.

Ameya Tripathi is a writer and graduate student from London, living in New York. His poetry has appeared in Kindlemag and a forthcoming essay on Ayrton Senna will be appearing in The Inkling. He researches English and Spanish war literature and film at the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

Sponsored in part by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and The English Department Colloquium on Diaspora, Race and Empire.

The Sobejano Library (#206), on the second floor of Casa Hispánica, 612 W. 116th Street, New York, NY