November 2016
Scholastique Mukasonga at Festival Albertine 2016
Scholastique Mukasonga, author of the award-winning Our Lady of the Nile and the freshly released memoir Cockroaches, will join Laurent Dubois, Maboula Soumahoro, Darryl Pinckney, and Chris Jackson for a panel discussion titled "Europe and America in the Black Literary Imagination" as part of the Festival Albertine 2016 taking place at the French Embassy of New York City at 5 PM Saturday, November 5th. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. From the event's website... "This panel…
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Kaiama L. Glover in conversation with Edwidge Danticat at Albertine
Please join us at Albertine for a conversation between translator Kaiama L. Glover and writer Edwidge Danticat about Dance on the Volcano, by Marie Vieux-Chauvet. Madison Smartt-Bell says, "With what’s going on racially and politically in the United States today, now is an excellent time for this masterpiece novel to appear in English – and in a translation which does full justice to the great beauty of Chauvet’s prose." Set in late-18th century Haiti, Dance on the Volcano follows the extraordinary…
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