Leila Slimani and Emili Manzano in Conversation
In the Country of Others
Debate
In this session the writer and journalist Leila Slimani, one of the most outstanding authors of contemporary French literature, will speak with the journalist Emili Manzano on the occasion of the publication of her most recent book In the Country of Others (published in Catalan as El país dels altres. Guerra, Guerra, Guerra by Cabaret Voltaire and Angle Editorial, 2021).
In her long career Leila Slimani, who has been awarded many literary prizes including the Prix Goncourt, has explored questions like feminism, the role of women in today’s world, sexuality, and freedom in its many facets. With her most recent novel, In the Country of Others, she opens a trilogy which, inspired by the story of her own family, covers the years from the 1950s through to the present day. In this book, she explores colonialism and its effects on individual lives, thereby constructing a genealogy of the sense of otherness in a divided country. The characters in this story always live in the “country of others” in such a way that strangeness and the inability to belong to a place become universal sentiments of contemporary experience.
This activity will be conducted by the Journalist Emili Manzano and is organized with the collaboration of the publishers Cabaret Voltaire and Angle Editorial.
Leila Slimani will participate in the conversation by videoconference.
Participants: Leila Slimani, Emili Manzano
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