We're having an auction! On May 30, come support Elsewhere Editions' efforts to publish extraordinary international children's lit. We'll have work from artists and illustrators including Moyra Davey, Emilie Clark, Chioma Ebinama, Mary Simpson, Mary Frank, Liana Finck, Alexander Chee, […]
Looking Back: Memoir, Auto-Fiction and the Worlds that Shape Us With Scholastique Mukasonga, Aleksandar Hemon, and Amit Chaudhuri. Moderated by Amitava Kumar. Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts […]
Breaking Out: Women and Girls on Their Own Terms Mona Eltahawy (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls), Tamil writer Ambai (A Kitchen in the Corner of the House), and Téa Obreht (Inland) bring to life strong female voices […]
Dinner will be served at 8 pm. If you have any questions, or if you'd prefer to purchase tickets directly, please contact Emma Raddatz at emma@archipelagobooks.org or call 203-848-9874. Tickets:
Join us for a reading and discussion with Ambai at Another Story Bookshop in Toronto. C.S. Lakshmi, writing under the pseudonym of Ambai, is a feminist Tamil writer. She was born in 1944 in Tamil Nadu, and grew up in […]
Ambai will be delivering the lecture "Food for Thought: Some Reflections on Personal and Tamil Literary Engagement with Food and Life" as part of the Conflict and Food Study Group's FemFood Talks. Her collection A Kitchen in the Corner of […]
Join our childrens' book translators Alyson Waters and Donald Nicholson-Smith for a morning of fun and discovery around Claude Ponti’s My Valley and Philippe Fix’s Seraphin. In My Valley, Ponti leads us on a journey through the enchanted world of the Twims (tiny, […]
Join us for Roger Mello in conversation with other international award-winning authors and illustrators, focusing on cultural connections. Roger Mello has illustrated over 100 titles – 22 of which he also wrote – and his unique style and adroit sense […]
Maureen Shaughnessy discusses her latest translation, Hebe Uhart's The Scent of Buenos Aires. Maureen Shaughnessy’s translations have been published by World Literature Today, Words Without Borders, Asymptote and The Antioch Review. Her translation of Hebe Uhart’s selected stories, The Scent of Buenos Aires, is forthcoming from Archipelago […]
Join Roger Mello for a story time and drawing session at the Thomas Hughes Children’s Library. Roger Mello has illustrated over 100 titles – 22 of which he also wrote – and his unique style and adroit sense of color […]