Mark Pollizzotti presents Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Deborah, in conversation with Marta Figlerowicz

On November 21st, Mark Pollizzotti, translator of Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Deborah, will join critic and professor Marta Figlerowicz at Lofty Pigeon Books in Kensington, Brooklyn. Figlerowicz wrote an essay on Scholastique Mukasonga that recently ran in The Paris Review and we’re thrilled to hear them discuss Mukasonga’s oeuvre and Mark’s deft translations. Join us at 7pm for a reading, conversation, and signing!

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Mark Polizzotti has translated the work of Jean Echenoz, Gustave Flaubert, André Breton and Christian Oster, in addition to Duras’ novel Writing (1998). He is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton and is director of publications at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Marta Figlerowicz is an associate professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. Working in over eight languages, in her academic writing she often returns to modernism, its genealogies, and its afterlives. Her public-facing essays for venues such as Foreign Affairs, Boston Review, The Drift, The Yale Review, and The Paris Review comment on contemporary literature, film, and politics. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.