On Monday, April 2, Marie Darrieussecq will give a talk titled "A Dream About the Forest: Imaginations of Africa in the Mind of a French-Basque Writer" (in English).
Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in the Basque country, in France. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on auto-fiction. At the same time, she wrote her first novel Truismes in six weeks (1996, translated in 1997 under the title: Pig Tales. A Novel of Lust and Transformation) which met with immediate worldwide success. Since then, she has published 15 more books with Editions P.O.L, six of which have been translated into English. Marie Darrieussecq is today a notable figure in the distinguished younger generation of French writers.
Time of Talk: 6:00 pm
Location: Rubel Room, UA Poetry Center
Event Sponsors: Africana Studies Program, Alliance française, Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Dept. of English, Dept. of French and Italian, College of Humanities, School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SILLC).
For more information, please contact: Prof. Alain-Philippe Durand (520-621-5664, adurand@email.arizona.edu)