May 2019
Voices of the Silenced: Scholastique Mukasonga at the PEN World Voices Festival
Scholastique Mukasonga belongs to a group of pioneering authors who have broken the silence and share stories of survival. Genocide in Rwanda displaced Scholastique and her family, forcing them to flee their home, first to Burundi and later to France. She has shared these experiences and captured readers through both her memoirs, Cockroaches and Barefoot Woman, as well as her novel, Our Lady of the Nile. On May 11, Scholastique will join authors Marcia Tiburi and Idra Novey in a…
Find out more »October 2019
Alyson Waters and Donald Nicholson-Smith at Albertine
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, extremely lovable, monkey-like creatures), a universe where uprooted buildings soar through the sky, trees keep the secrets you whisper to them, magic seeds grow into huge ships, and singing stones make children’s wishes come true. In Seraphin, a ticket seller in…
Find out more »April 2022
Christine Angot and Alexandra Kleeman discuss Impossible Love, hosted by Albertine
Join Christine Angot and Alexandra Kleeman as they discuss Angot’s An Impossible Love, hosted generously by Albertine Books. This event will take place at Albertine's New York bookstore on April 23 at 3pm. Click here to register for free. An Impossible Love by Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a social ball in early 1950s France: Rachel and Pierre, Angot’s mother and father, whose love is unusually acute. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, Angot the author…
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