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Manuel Rivas - World Literature Weekend 2011
Writing in El Pa’s, Jordi Gracia described Os libros arden mal as 'a novel that could have been history or biography, but is instead a work of litera…
14 years, 10 months ago
Ramsey Nasr and Ruth Padel - World Literature Weekend 2011
Prize-winning poet, essayist, dramatist and actor Ramsey Nasr was voted Poet Laureate of the Netherlands in 2009. Nasr was in conversation with prize…
14 years, 10 months ago
Javier Cercas: The Anatomy of a Moment
The Anatomy of a Moment is a patient dissection of a key episode in recent European history – the attempted coup in Spain in 1981. In his meticulous …
14 years, 10 months ago
Catalonia: Place of a Language - World Literature Weekend 2011
Catalan novelists Najat el Hachmi, Carles Casajuana and Teresa Solana, chaired by Peter Bush, discussed their work and the experience of being Catala…
14 years, 10 months ago
Cees Nooteboom and A.S. Byatt - World Literature Weekend 2011
One of the Netherlands' most distinguished living authors, Cees Nooteboom discussed short stories, death and translation with A.S. Byatt. Chaired by …
14 years, 10 months ago
Ali Smith: There but for the
Ali Smith read from her novel There but for the (Hamish Hamilton) and discussed her work with the audience.
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14 years, 11 months ago
Richard Sennett: The Foreigner
Richard Sennett came to the Bookshop to discuss The Foreigner, a pair of essays in which he explores displacement in the metropolis through two vibra…
15 years ago
Faber Poets: David Harsent; Jo Shapcott; Don Paterson
An evening of poetry was held at the Bookshop to celebrate the publication of David Harsent's collection, *Night*. Jo Shapcott and Don Paterson joine…
15 years, 3 months ago
Patti Smith: the Bloomsbury Reading
Patti Smith's reading, drawn from her extensive body of work, including Just Kids, and alongside those writers she has long loved and advocated, was …
15 years, 3 months ago
C - Tom McCarthy in conversation with Lee Rourke
On the eve of its confirmation as one of the six Man Booker shortlisted books for 2010, Tom McCarthy's ambitious and exhilarating novel C was the sub…
15 years, 8 months ago