Category: Events

Thea Lenarduzzi’s DANDELIONS Book Tour

8 September – Dandelions Book Launch at the South London Gallery, Peckham. Please RSVP to clare@fitzcarraldoeditions.com.

22 September – At Outwith Books, Glasgow.

27 September – In conversation with Anna Coatman at Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds.

29 September – In conversation with Kaye Mitchell at Blackwell’s Manchester.

30 September – In conversation with Jess White at the West Kirby Bookshop, the Wirral. Please email hello@thewestkirbybookshop.com to book your tickets.

26 October – In conversation with Giorgia Tolfo at Review Bookshop, Peckham.

Vanessa Onwuemezi’s DARK NEIGHBOURHOOD Book Tour

Vanessa Onwuemezi Credit Elizabeth Wicks

13 October Short Story event with Lucie McKnight Hardy, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Sarah Schofield at Blackwell’s Manchester

16 October Short Story event with Vanessa Onwuemezi, Alice Ash and Gemma Seltzer at Burley Fisher Festival

21 October Common Ground: Friendship in the City of London: Vanessa Onwuemezi, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Naomi Ishiguro at London Literature Festival

25 October – Vanessa Onwuemezi and Kayo Chingonyi hosted by Pages of Hackney [digital event] Link TK.

27 October – The Giant Dark/Dark Neighbourhood: Dazzling New Fiction with Sarvat Hasin at Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh

28 October Vanessa Onwuemezi and Shola Von Reinhold in conversation with Helen Charman at Mount Florida Books in Glasgow

Alice Hattrick’s ILL FEELINGS Book Tour

Alice Hattrick Credit Jacques Testard

16 SeptemberReading at Fitzcarraldo Editions x Bold Tendencies in Peckham.

23 September – Reading at Fitzcarraldo Editions x Storysmith in Bristol.

6 October – Alice Hattrick with Catriona Morton and Lucia Osborne-Crowley at Blackwell’s Manchester.

16 October – Alice Hattrick will be at Burley Fisher’s Fifth Anniversary Festival.

21 October Alice Hattrick x ACHE Magazine digital event.

22 October Alice Hattrick x Rebecca Birrell at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

11 November – Alice Hattrick in conversation with Lucia Osborne Crowley at Toppings Edinburgh. Link TK.

Fitzcarraldo Editions: Events in October 2018

Tuesday, 2 October: Launch party for Limbo by Dan Fox

Please join Fitzcarraldo Editions for the launch of Limbo by Dan Fox at Tenderbooks.

6-8pm. Tenderbooks, 6 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4HE.

The launch is free and open to all. Please RSVP to info@fitzcarraldoeditions.com

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Wednesday, 3 October: Christina Hesselholdt at the American University of Paris

Christina Hesselholdt will be presenting her novel Companions at the AUP.

6.30pm. Room 103 of 6 rue Colonel Combes (75007). Free and open to all but please notify AUP at cwt@aup.edu at least 24 hours before the event and bring a photo ID.

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Thursday, 4 October: Annie Ernaux at Shakespeare and Co.

Annie Ernaux will be reading from and discussing The Years at Shakespeare and Co.

7pm. 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France. Free and open to all. 

More information can be found on the Shakespeare and Co. website.

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Monday, 15 October: Launch party for Olga Tokarczuk at TANK.

Please join us for the launch of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones). Olga Tokarczuk and Antonia Lloyd-Jones will give a short reading and there will be some drinks.

The event is free to attend but please RSVP to info@fitzcarraldoeditions.com

6.30pm-8.30pm. TANK, 91-93 Great Portland Street, London W1W 7NX.

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Tuesday, 16 October: Screening of Spoor and Q&A with Olga Tokarzuk at Curzon Bloomsbury

We host an exclusive UK screening of Spoor (Pokot) – directed by Agnieszka Holland and based on Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk – in partnership with the Curzon Bloomsbury. There will be a Q&A with Olga Tokarczuk after the screening. 

6pm-9.30pm. Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick Centre, London WC1N 1AW.

Tickets are £16 and available to book on Curzon’s website.

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Wednesday 17 October: Olga Tokarczuk at Cambridge Literary Festival

Olga Tokarczuk will be in conversation with Kasia Boddy at an event hosted by the Cambridge Literary Festival at Heffers Bookshop Cambridge.

6.30pm. Heffers, 20 Trinity St, Cambridge CB2 1TY.

Tickets are £10 and available to book here.

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Thursday 18 October: Olga Tokarczuk and Antonia Lloyd-Jones at London Literature Festival

Olga Tokarczuk and Antonia Lloyd-Jones will be discussing Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead at London Literature Festival, hosted by the Southbank Centre.

7.45pm. Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX. 

Tickets £15 (£3 booking fee) and available to book here.

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Sunday 28 October: Mathias Enard at the Festival of Italian Literature in London

Mathias Enard will be in conversation with Nicola Lagioia (chaired by Catherine Taylor), discussing the role of the European novel in the face of political turmoil. The event is part of the Festival of Italian Literature in London, and will take place at Print Room at the Coronet.

4.45pm. Print Room at the Coronet, 103 Notting Hill Gate, Kensington, London W11 3LB. 

Tickets are £5 and available to book here.

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Monday 29 October: Mathias Enard at the London Review Bookshop

Mathias Enard will be reading from and discussing his novella Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants (tr. Charlotte Mandell, published 1 November 2018) with Elif Shafak at the London Review Bookshop.

7pm. 14-16 Bury Pl, Bloomsbury, London WC1A 2JL.

Tickets are £10 and available to buy on the LRB bookshop’s website.

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Tuesday 30 October: Mathias Enard at Caravansérail

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Mathias Enard’s Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants (tr. Charlotte Mandell) at Caravansérail, 5 Cheshire Street, London E2 6ED from 6.30-8.30pm. There will a short reading; there will be drinks. The launch is free and open to all but please RSVP here.

Launch events for In the Dark Room by Brian Dillon

At the Photographers' Gallery Bookshop and the London Review Bookshop

Please join us to celebrate the re-issue of Brian Dillon’s In the Dark Room. Originally published by Penguin in 2005, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally.

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On Thursday 15 March, Brian Dillon will present In the Dark Room at the Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop, 16 – 18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW, from 6-8pm. There will be a reading and a book signing. The event is free to attend, but please RSVP to info@fitzcarraldoeditions.com.

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On Wednesday 21 March, Brian Dillon will be reading from and discussing In the Dark Room with Sophie Ratcliffe at the London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL, from 7pm. Tickets are available here.

London launch events for Esther Kinsky’s RIVER (tr. Iain Galbraith)

At Sutton House in Hackney and Tate Modern

Please join us for the London launches of River by Esther Kinsky (tr. Iain Galbraith)

On Tuesday 20 February, Pages of Hackney will host a launch event at Sutton House, 2 & 4 Homerton High St, London E9 6JQ, from 7-9pm. There will be a short reading and drinks. The event is free and all are welcome. Please RSVP to Pages of Hackney here, or to info@fitzcarraldoeditions.com. 

On Wednesday 21 February, Esther Kinsky will be in conversation with Gareth Evans at Tate Modern from 7-8.30pm. This event is also free and open to all, but please book a place through Tate here.  

 

Fitzcarraldo Editions and The White Review at Offprint Paris

For the first time since 2015, The White Review and Fitzcarraldo Editions will share a stand at Offprint Paris from 9-12 November at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Offprint is an art book fair which brings together 130 publishers from 39 countries. 

The opening times are as follows: 

Thursday 9 November 17.00-21.00
Friday 10 November 13.00-20.00
Saturday 11 November 11.00-19.00
Sunday 12 November 11.00-18.00

We look forward to seeing you there.

Launch Party for THIS LITTLE ART by Kate Briggs

at Caravansérail Bookshop-Gallery

Please join us at Caravansérail Bookshop-Gallery for the launch of Kate Briggs’s new book This Little Art on 20 September from 6.30-8.30pm. There will be a short reading at 7.30ish; there will be drinks. The event is free to attend but please do RSVP to info@fitzcarraldoeditions.com. 

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter’s translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between André Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original.

‘Kate Briggs’s This Little Art shares some wonderful qualities with Barthes’s own work – the wit, thoughtfulness, invitation to converse, and especially the attention to the ordinary and everyday in the context of meticulously examined theoretical and scholarly questions. This is a highly enjoyable read: informative and stimulating for anyone interested in translation, writing, language, and expression.’
— Lydia Davis, author of Can’t and Won’t

‘In This Little Art, Kate Briggs looks at the “everyday, peculiar thing” that is translation, testing it out, worrying at its questions. She deftly weaves her recurring threads (Roland Barthes, Crusoe’s table, The Magic Mountain, aerobic dance classes) into something fascinatingly elastic and expansive, an essay – meditation? call to arms? – that is full of surprises both erudite and intimate, and rich in challenges to the ways we think about translation. And so, inevitably, to the ways we think about writing, reading, artistry and creativity, too. As a translator, I’m regularly disappointed by what I read about translation – it feels self-indulgent, irrelevant in its over-abstraction – but This Little Art is altogether different. It comes to its revelations through practicality, curiosity, devotion, optimism, an intense and questioning scrutiny, as the work of a great translator so often does.’
— Daniel Hahn, translator of José Eduardo Agualusa and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award in 2017

‘Not so much a demystification as a re-enchantment of the practice of literary translation, that maddening, intoxicating ‘little’ art which yokes humility and hubris, constraint and creativity – in Briggs’s passionate telling, you can
practically hear the sparks fly.’
— Deborah Smith, translator of Han Kang and winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2016

‘Briggs interrogates and celebrates the art of translation. She wears her erudition lightly in this highly readable essay that makes intriguing connections and raises more questions than it answers. Urgent and pertinent questions that challenge
us as readers, writers and translators and offer much food for thought.’
— Ros Schwartz, translator of Tahar Ben Jelloun, Georges Simenon and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This Little Art maps the current landscape and disputed territories of literary translation with exquisite precision. With xenophobia on the rise across the western world, the complex art of translation has achieved a new level of relevance for English-language readers and Briggs has crafted an excellent exploration of the reasons why.’
— Idra Novey, author and translator of Clarice Lispector

‘Just as there is something intimate about the act of translation – the translator is inhabiting the text being translated, reading it as closely as possible – there is an intimacy to This Little Art, Kate Briggs’s wonderfully evocative essay on translation. We feel the author is talking to us from across the table about the most important things – novels, language, beauty, art – but in a confidential, friendly way, in a way that makes us listen more closely. Translation, Briggs shows us, is a conversation – between the author and translator, between the translator and reader – and it is this conversation that keeps literature alive. I hope this book will produce not only more readers appreciative of the art of translation, but also more translators willing to engage in the courageous and daunting task of true close reading, that most intimate act we call translation.’
— Charlotte Mandell, translator of Maurice Blanchot, Jonathan Littell and Mathias Enard

Fitzcarraldo Editions: May/June 2017 Events

Wednesday 10 May: Clemens Meyer participates in the European Literature Night 2017 alongside A. L. Kennedy and Francesca Melandri at the British Library, London. 7 – 8:30pm. Tickets here.

Thursday 11 May: Clemens Meyer and Katy Derbyshire participate in the Encounters Series hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of London. 6:30pm. Further details here.

Saturday 13 May: Beyond Words Festival French Literature Festival hosts readings of the Man Booker International longlisted titles including Compass by Mathias Énard, at the Institute Français, London. 6:30 – 7:30pm. Tickets here.

Thursday 25 May: Claire-Louise Bennet participates in a night of words and music at the International Literature Festival Dublin. 6pm. Tickets here.

Monday 29 May: Olga Tokarczuk in conversation with Claire Armitstead at Hay-on-Wye Festival. 11:30am. Tickets here.

Tuesday 30 May: Charlie Fox discusses This Young Monster at Spike Island, Bristol. 6:30pm. Tickets here.

Tuesday 30 May: Olga Tokarczuk in conversation with Kaye Mitchell at Deansgate Waterstones, Manchester. 7pm. Tickets here.

Wednesday 31 May: Claire-Louise Bennett in conversation with Karl Ove Knausgård at Lillehammer Bibliotek, Norway. 6pm. Tickets here.

Wednesday 31 May: launch event for Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights (tr. Jennifer Croft) at Calvert 22. There will be a Q&A with James Woodall, and drinks. Details here.

Wednesday 21 June: London launch party for Brian Dillon’s Essayism at Camden Arts Centre. Details tbc.

Thursday 22 June: Essayism: Brian Dillon and Max Porter at the London Review Bookshop. 7pm. Tickets here.

Fitz Carraldo Editions