The Art of Life: Maylis De Kerangal & Kathleen Winter

Maylis de Kerangal, Kathleen Winter and Janet Somerville

The Art of Life: Maylis De Kerangal & Kathleen Winter

Maylis de Kerangal, Kathleen Winter and Janet Somerville

4:00pm

Monday, October 25

Settle in for an enthralling conversation about self-discovery and devotion, as two of the most highly acclaimed prose writers of our time introduce the brilliant female leads in their new books. French novelist Maylis De Kerangal brings us a young female art student in Painting Time (translated to English by Jessica Moore), an aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel, and a most anticipated book of 2021 by The Guardian. Kathleen Winter summons Romantic Era genius Dorothy Wordsworth, in Undersong, a historical novel reimagining the lost years of esteemed yet misunderstood nature writer. Both stories underscore the struggle between serving one’s craft, pleasing others and fulfilling one’s own potential.

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This event is generously supported by the French Embassy in Canada. Avec le soutien de l’Ambassade de France au Canada.

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Settle in for an enthralling conversation about self-discovery and devotion, as two of the most highly acclaimed prose writers of our time introduce the brilliant female leads in their new books. French novelist Maylis De Kerangal brings us a young female art student in Painting Time (translated to English by Jessica Moore), an aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel, and a most anticipated book of 2021 by The Guardian. Kathleen Winter summons Romantic Era genius Dorothy Wordsworth, in Undersong, a historical novel reimagining the lost years of esteemed yet misunderstood nature writer. Both stories underscore the struggle between serving one’s craft, pleasing others and fulfilling one’s own potential.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

This event is generously supported by the French Embassy in Canada. Avec le soutien de l’Ambassade de France au Canada.

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Conversation

Featured Authors

Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels in French; Je marche sous un ciel de traîne, La vie voyageuse, Corniche Kennedy, and Naissance d’un pont, which was translated as Birth of a Bridge, winner of the Franz Hessel Prize and the Médicis Prize. She has also published a novella, Tangente vers l’est  which won the 2012 Landerneau Prize. In 2014 her fifth novel, Réparer les vivants, was published to wide acclaim, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire and the Student Choice Novel of the Year from France Culture and Télérama. She lives in Paris, France.

Maylis de Kerangal’s Festival appearance is generously supported by the French Embassy in Canada.

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Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter's novel Annabel was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Orange Prize and numerous other awards. Her Arctic memoir Boundless was shortlisted for Canada's Weston and Taylor non-fiction prizes, and her last novel Lost in September (2017) was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. Born in the UK, Kathleen now lives in Montreal after many years in Newfoundland.

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Janet Somerville
Janet Somerville taught literature for 25 years in Toronto. She served on the PEN Canada Board and chaired many benefits that featured writers including Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Stephen King, Alice Munro, Azar Nafisi and Ian Rankin. She contributes to the Toronto Star Book Pages and has been handwriting a #LetterADay for 7 years. Since 2016 she has had ongoing access to Martha Gellhorn’s restricted papers in Boston. Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love & War 1930-1949 is her first book, now available on audio, read by Ellen Barkin. Follow her @janetsomerville.

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Monday, October 25

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