Helene Cixous

Helene Cixous

2 March at 8.30pm

Helen Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. In 2009, she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by UCL.

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Dominique Moisi

Dominique Moïsi

4 March at 7pm

Dominique Moisi, a founder and Senior Advisor at Ifri (French Institute for International Relations), is currently a Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin, Warsaw. The French version of his last book The Geopolitics of Emotion has just been published in France.
No one is better placed than Dominique Moisi to examine Europe’s struggle to define its vision of the world. A founder of the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI) and a professor at the Institute d’études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, Dominique Moisi is equally at home is equally at home in Europe, America, and Asia.

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Agnes Desarthe

Agnès Desarthe

5 March at 1pm

Agnès Desarthe is a prize-winning and bestselling author of fiction for children and adults and her work is translated into all the major European languages. Chez Moi is her third work translated into English.

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Denise Epstein

Denise Epstein (Irène Nemirovsky's daughter) and Olivier Philipponnat

7 March at 6.30pm

Before Denise Epstein went into hiding during World War II, her father put her in charge of two valuables: a suitcase filled with her mother's notes and her little sister.

Epstein's mother, Irene Nemirovsky, was an accomplished writer who died at Auschwitz in 1942. Epstein never parted with the suitcase, but never opened it either. In the late 1980s, Epstein decided to give its contents to the French literary archives, but before she handed them over, she opened the bag.

What she found made literary magic.

Olivier Philipponnat

Olivier Philipponnat, the co-author of Nemirovsky's biography, says Suite Francaise is the first work of fiction on the occupation and the exodus from Paris. Nemirovsky's works are now considered classics in France and are part of school curriculums. Philipponnat says there is justice in her revival.

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