This event will be held in English.
Co-organized by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination and The American Library in Paris, with the Columbia Global Paris Center. With the support of Festival America.
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Parisian Anglophone bookstore The Red Wheelbarrow will be present at the event for book sales.
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For the first Entre Nous event of the rentrée, the American Library in Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination and the Columbia Global Paris Center will host at Reid Hall a conversation between two of the greatest contemporary literary voices: Colm Tóibín and Guadalupe Nettel, on the occasion of the French publication of Toíbín’s latest novel, Long Island. The book tells the story of Eilis Lacey —the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, one of Tóibín’s most acclaimed books— twenty years later, in a moving and tense story of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love. Following the discussion, both authors will answer questions from the audience and sign books.
Speakers
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names, and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published two collections of stories and numerous works of non-fiction. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
Guadalupe Nettel is a Mexican writer, author of award-winning novels and collections of short stories translated into more than twenty languages, including The Body Where I was Born, After the Winter, and Still Born. She has received many awards for her fiction, including the Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero and the Herralde Prize, one of the highest honors in hispanophone literature, and is a frequent contributor to El Pais, The New York Times, and La Repubblica. In 2008 he earned a PhD in Literature from the EHESS in Paris in 2008. Her work has been adapted into theater and film. She is currently a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Organizers
The Columbia Global Paris Center addresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.
Each year the Institute for Ideas and Imagination brings together a cohort of 14-15 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation. The Institute fosters intellectual and creative diversity unconstrained by medium and discipline through the interaction of the arts and academia.
The Paris Center is part of Columbia Global, which brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and Undergraduate Global Engagement.
The American Library in Paris was established in 1920 under the auspices of the American Library Association with a core collection of books and periodicals donated by American libraries to the U.S. armed forces personnel serving their allies during World War I. Since then, the library has become the largest English-language lending library on the European continent.
Venue
Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Columbia Undergraduate Programs, the M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement with the world through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.
The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the Columbia Global Paris Center or its affiliates.
Image Credits: Colm Tóibín © Peter-Andreas Hassiepen / Guadalupe Nettel © Germán Nájera
