Metropolis of Asylum presents the fourth installment of the Worldwide Studying Collection curated and moderated by Anderson Tepper, “Discussing Haitian Literature with Yanick Lahens and Lyonel Trouillot.” This digital occasion takes place on April 27, at 7:00pm (EDT). Learn extra at Metropolis of Asylum and get Free Livestream Tickets.
Description: On this digital fourth installment of our Worldwide Studying Collection curated by Anderson Tepper, Metropolis of Asylum welcomes Yanick Lahens and Lyonel Trouillot. This collection options an exploration of world views and voices with authors born outdoors of the USA. On this program, Yanick, Lyonel, and Anderson will talk about the authors’ latest novels and discover the totally different sides of Haitian literature.
Yanick’s novel Candy Undoings presents a portrait of Port-au-Prince, the place violence finds its counterpart in sweetness. The novel follows an ensemble solid of compelling characters—a French journalist, a lounge singer, a determined poet, an activist, a pacifist, and an American residing his days out in Haiti, his dwelling away from dwelling. Nourishing its energy from the bowels of the town, Candy Undoings strikes with a fast, electrical syncopation, regularly and tenderly revealing the intimacy of the lives inside.
Lyonel presents his personal imaginative and prescient of Port-au-Prince in Antoine of Gommiers, a satirical novel tinged with magical realism. With alternating chapters that reveal the day-to-day struggles of two twin brothers—Ti-Tony, a small-time hustler, and Frankie, a wheel-chair-bound folklorist who’s writing a biography of the mythic titular Antoine—residing within the capital metropolis, the worlds of rural and concrete Haiti are dropped at colourful and vibrant life.
Buy a replica of Yanick’s e-book, Candy Undoings, or Lyonel’s e-book, Antoine of Gommiers, at Metropolis of Asylum Bookstore.
Yanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. After attending college and college in France, she returned to Haiti, the place she taught literature on the college in Port-au-Prince and labored for the Ministry of Tradition. Her first novel was printed in 2000, and he or she gained the celebrated Prix Femina in 2014 and a French Voices Award in 2015 for Moonbath. An English translation of Moonbath (tr. Emily Gogolak) was printed by Deep Vellum in 2017.
Lyonel Trouillot is a Haitian novelist, poet, journalist, and professor of literature, in addition to the creator of 11 novels, two essays and a e-book of poetry. His La belle amour humaine was shortlisted for the Goncourt in 2011 and acquired the Grand Prix du Roman Métis (2011), the Geneva E book Honest Literary Prize (2012), and the Gitanjali Literary Prize (2012). That very same yr, he was awarded the Prix Wexler for his novel Yanvalou pour Charlie, and in 2013, he was awarded the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde for Parabole du failli. In 2019 his novel Kannjawou was shortlisted for the Albertine E book Award.
Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the worldwide committee of the Brooklyn E book Pageant and a visitor curator of the 2023 PEN World Voices Pageant of Worldwide Literature. Previously of Self-importance Honest, he writes on books and authors for quite a lot of publications, together with The New York Instances, The Los Angeles Instances, and World Literature At the moment. Anderson Tepper serves on the Metropolis of Asylum Advisory Board.
This program is digital solely.
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