Christine Otten, author of The Last Poets, the wonderful biopic of the group of the same name, will take to the stage along with group member Umar Bin Hassan here in Amsterdam as part of the Holland Festival on 22 June.Do come along if you're...
to launch the English translation of Woman of the Ashes, with events in Oxford, the British Library and Hay Festival. He did a joint interview for BBC Radio 4’s Open Book with Wayetu Moore, author of She Would Be King – you can download the...
to launch the UK edition of Oblivion, translated by Rosalind Harvey and Anne McLean.He’ll be appearing at the British Library, London on 19 September – tickets are available here.Described by Fatima Bhutto as ‘a book so beautiful, it is a treasure and a heartbreak to read’...
Tatiana de Rosnay, author of The Rain Watcher, and Alicia Drake, author of I Love You Too Much, kept the audience at the Institut Francais Beyond Words festival rapt as they discussed Paris, dysfunctional families, the pleasures of writing in French and in English, and...
Annelies Verbeke, author of Thirty Days and Writer in Residence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, will deliver the Abraham Kuyper Lecture on Tuesday 21 May in the Zuiderkerk Church in Amsterdam....
The Last Poets, subjects of Christine Otten's biopic of the same name, have been selected as one of the opening acts for this year's Poetry International Festival, held in Rotterdam on 13-16 June....
World Editions author Mia Couto, author of Woman of the Ashes (‘enchanting’ – The Guardian) will be in the UK in May 2019, speaking at two major events.He’ll be in conversation with Maya Jaggi at the British Library on 22 May, and interviewed by Daniel...
This March Tatiana de Rosnay’s blog tour took her to some of the UK’s most highly-regarded book blogs, to launch her new novel, The Rain Watcher.The Rain Watcher is set in Paris, but a very different city to the one we like to imagine. The...
Multiple prizewinner has already sold 180,000 copies in first months of publication in FranceInternational literature specialists World Editions are to publish the English translation of Adeline Dieudonné’s bestselling Real Life, ‘a fierce and bitingly funny debut on surviving the wilderness of family life,’ translated...
The book centres around a family reunion in Paris, for the 70th birthday of Paul Malegarde.But Paris is flooding, the Seine is about to burst its banks, and the family are facing a crisis of their own; Paul suffers a stroke and is taken to...