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September 2022

Fall Fête

September 21, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Vinegar Hill House, 72 Hudson Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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We are delighted to be hosting our annual Fall Fête once again. Please join us for an evening filled with good books and good people, at the beautiful Vinegar Hill House. Drinks and canapes will be served in the carriage house and garden. The closest subway stop is the York Street stop on the F line. If you have any questions about the event, please contact Emma at emma@archipelagobooks.org. special thanks to Rosenthal Wine Merchant and Grimm Ales for generously…

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Scholastique Mukasonga and Mark Polizzotti in celebration of Kibogo

September 29, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446 United States
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Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with Scholastique Mukasonga and translator Mark Polizzotti to celebrate the release of Kibogo. Longlisted for 2022 National Book Award, it's a masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature. The conversation will take place on September 29th, at 7pm ET. You can register here. Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before…

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October 2022

Discussion between Scholastique Mukasonga and Vladimir Sorokin at Brooklyn Book Festival

October 2, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Center for Brooklyn History, 128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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We're delighted to be at the Brooklyn Book Festival again this year— we invite you to visit us at our booth, and to join in for a conversation  between Scholastique Mukasonga, author of Kibogo, and Russian writer-in-exile Vladimir Sorokin, who will talk about time, myths and legends that shape communities, and changes they have to undertake. The event will take place in the Center for Brooklyn History on October 2nd, at 12pm EST. Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga…

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November 2022

Hanne Ørstavik and Tess Lewis celebrate the release of Ti Amo

November 1, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Norwich Bookstore, 291 Main Street
Norwich, VT 05055 United States
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We’re delighted to invite you to join a conversation between Tess Lewis and Hanne Ørstavik, author of Ti Amo, as they discuss the novel and it's translation into English by Martin Aitken. The event will take place in person at the Norwich Bookstore in Vermont on November 1st, at 7pm EST. In Ti Amo, an unnamed narrator tends to her husband, stricken with cancer, in the final months of his life. She examines the elements of their life together: their Vietnamese rose-colored folding table…

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Hanne Ørstavik and Nina MacLaughlin discuss Ti Amo at Brookline Booksmith

November 3, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446 United States
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Join Hanne Ørstavik and writer Nina MacLaughlin in conversation about Ørstavik's latest novel, Ti Amo. Hosted by the Brookline Booksmith, the event will take place at the bookshop on November 3rd, at 7pm EST. Hanne Ørstavik published the novel Cut in 1994 and embarked on a career that would make her one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of Love (Kjærlighet), which in 2006 was voted the 6th best…

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Maureen Freely and Merve Emre in conversation about Dawn

November 17, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Community Bookstore, 143 7th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215 United States
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Join us for a virtual discussion about our new release - Sevgi Soysal's stunning 1975 novel Dawn. The book will be presented by the translator Maureen Freely, in conversation with Merve Emre. The event is hosted by Community Bookstore, in partnership with the Third Place Books and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith. It will take place on November 17th at 6pm EST via Zoom. You can register here. Maureen Freely is a writer, translator, senior lecturer at Warwick University,…

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December 2022

Karen Emmerich, Mark Polizzotti, and Jacob Rogers together in person

December 9, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Molasses Books, 770 Hart St.
Brooklyn, NY 11237 United States
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We're delighted to invite you to a reading and discussion by brilliant translators Karen Emmerich, Mark Polizzotti, and Jacob Rogers. This event is a part of Another Way to Say reading series, dedicated to translations, multilingual writing and polyglot experience. All three translators will read excerpts from the titles they have translated for Archipelago Books from Greek, French, and Galician respectively. This in-person reading will take place at Molasses Bookshop on December 9th, 8pm EST.   Karen Emmerich's translations from…

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January 2023

Jacob Rogers on The Last Days of Terranova with Eric Banks

January 24 @ 7:00 pm
McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton St
New York, 10038
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Join us for a conversation on the practice of translation and often-intertwining literary and political history with translator Jacob Rogers and Eric Banks. They will discuss the translation of Manuel Rivas's novel The Last Days of Terranova. The event will take place at McNally Jackson Seaport on January 24th at 7:00 pm. You can register for the event here -- RSVPs are required. Jacob Rogers is a translator of Galician and Spanish poetry and prose. He has received grants from…

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February 2023

Mark Polizzotti on his recent translations at Alliance Française in Washington

February 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Alliance Française de Washington DC, 2142 Wyoming Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20008 United States
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$10

Join Mark Polizzotti in person at the Alliance Française in Washington, DC, where he'll discuss his most recent translations, including Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo, Arthur Rimbaud's The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings, and Patrick Modiano's Scene of the Crime. Mark Polizzotti will be in conversation with Alliance's Executive Director Sarah Diligenti in English. Copies of the books will be available for signing and purchase during the event. You can purchase your tickets here. Doors open at 6:30pm, a glass of wine will…

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March 2023

Jessica Moore and Anne Michaels at TYPE Books

March 7 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
TYPE Books, 883 Queen St W
Toronto, ON M6J1G5 Canada
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Free

Jessica Moore will be in conversation with the poet and writer Anne Michaels in Toronto on March 7th at TYPE Books. They will discuss Jessica Moore's translation of Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal. The event starts at 6:30pm, and their conversation will begin at 7pm. JESSICA MOORE is an award-winning literary translator and the author of two books, Everything, now and The Whole Singing Ocean. She has translated three previous books by Maylis de Kerangal: Mend the Living, Birth of a Bridge and Painting Time. A former Lannan…

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