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The idea of dedicating a weekend of talks and discussions to foreign and translated literature has evolved over the six years since the London Review Bookshop first opened and began holding events that have earned it a proud reputation. Looking back at those events, I notice one thing immediately: how lucky we have bee...n in attracting writers from all over the world. This festival is our way of celebrating that; several of the distinguished authors who have agreed to take part are travelling from abroad especially for the festival.

One of our aims has been to place the translator centre stage (the programme features works translated from Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, French and Russian) and we are fortunate that this year's winning translator of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Anne McLean, is taking part in the panel discussion with three other eminent translators: her English language edition of Evelio Rosero's The Armies was launched at the bookshop last October.

We are, it need hardly be said, very grateful to the British Museum, Arts Council England and the IFFP for supporting this inaugural venture. Welcome everybody!

All events are listed individually on our Facebook page, and bookable via our website at:

http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/world_literature_weekend

All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141.

Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only).
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Supported by the British Museum, Arts Council England and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Time:3:00PM Friday, June 19th
Location:London Review Bookshop and British Museum
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
Edward Said described Elias Khoury as an artist who gives ‘voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identities, to radical demands and new languages’. Best known to English readers for his epic Gate of the Sun, Khoury’s new novel is Yalo, translated by Peter Theroux. Yalo is a ...soldier who becomes a deserter, thief, nightwatchman in Paris, arms smuggler, then rapist. The novel, a modern-day take on the Arabian Nights, revisits Lebanon’s sectarian civil war through a series of confessions extracted under torture. He will be in discussion with the author and journalist Jeremy Harding, a contributing editor at the LRB, who has written extensively on Khoury’s life and work.

All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141.

Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only).

For more information and to buy tickets, visit:

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Supported by:

* The British Museum
* Arts Council England
* The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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Part of World Literature Weekend at the London Review Bookshop
Time:5:30PM Sunday, June 21st
Location:London Review Bookshop
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
Marina Warner, the prominent writer, critic, historian and broadcaster, will address the wide variation in translated versions of Russian texts. Her conversation with Robert Chandler will focus on Andrey Platonov in particular. Chandler has translated and co-translated several of Platonov’s novels, including, with Eliz...abeth Chandler and Olga Meerson, a new edition of the absurdist parable The Foundation Pit, Platonov’s most overtly political book, written in direct response to the brutalities of Stalin’s collectivisation of Russian agriculture. It is a literary masterpiece which deforms and transforms language in seeking to evoke unspeakable realities. This English translation is the first and only one to be based on the definitive edition published by Pushkin House in Moscow.

All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141.

Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only).

For more information and to buy tickets, visit:

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Supported by:

* The British Museum
* Arts Council England
* The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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with Marina Warner and Robert Chandler
Time:3:30PM Sunday, June 21st
Location:Stevenson Room, British Museum
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London Review Bookshop
Midnight and Other Poems, translated by Radwa Ashour, is the first major collection of Mourid Barghouti’s poetry to be published in the UK. This remarkable Palestinian writer, best known to English-language readers for his autobiography I Saw Ramallah, which won the Naguib Mahfouz Award for Literature, has spent many y...ears in exile, and Midnight is a rich emotional montage of images of the land of his birth. He will read, then talk with Ruth Padel, whose latest book is Darwin: A Life in Poems. Barghouti and Padel will discuss translation, home and homelessness, here and away, language and landscape, self and other.

All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141.

Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only).

For more information and to buy tickets, visit:

http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=5566&cat=256&page=1

Supported by:

* The British Museum
* Arts Council England
* The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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Part of World Literature Weekend at the London Review Bookshop
Time:2:00PM Sunday, June 21st
Location:London Review Bookshop
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
An award-winning novelist and essayist, Dubravka Ugrešić reflects on femininity, ageing, identity, secrets and love. These are the themes of her new novel, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, a modern reworking of a traditional myth, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, Celia Hawkesworth and Mark Thompson. She will be in conversation ...with Lisa Appignanesi, currently the President of English PEN, and author of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present. Susan Sontag described Ugrešić as ‘a writer to follow, a writer to be cherished’; Marina Warner has said that she has ‘a unique tone of voice, a madcap wit and a lively sense of the absurd’. Born in former Yugoslavia, she currently lives in Amsterdam.

All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141.

Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only).

For more information and to buy tickets, visit:

http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=5560&cat=256&page=1

Supported by:

* The British Museum
* Arts Council England
* The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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Part of World Literature Weekend at the London Review Bookshop
Time:12:00PM Sunday, June 21st
Location:Stevenson Room, British Museum
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
Faïza Guène is a French writer and film director, born to Algerian parents in 1985. She wrote her first novel, Kiffe Kiffe demain (published in English as Just Like Tomorrow), when she was 17 years old. It was a huge success in France, and has been translated throughout the world. Guène’s work breaks out of the Francop...hone ghetto to offer a remarkable dialogue between the disenfranchised banlieues and ‘metropolitan’ France. Rooted in disarming observational comedy, her novels give voice both to the Arabic-influenced backslang (verlan) spoken by young immigrants and the ‘straight’ French of her education, in a creative mix skilfully rendered by her translator and co-speaker, Sarah Ardizzone. Dubbed ‘the Sagan of the suburbs’, Guène develops her political concerns, comic flair and linguistic inventiveness in her second book Dreams from the Endz (Vintage).

All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141.

Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only).

For more information and to buy tickets, visit:

http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=5562&cat=256&page=1

Supported by:

* The British Museum
* Arts Council England
* The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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Part of World Literature Weekend at the London Review Bookshop
Time:4:00PM Saturday, June 20th
Location:BP Room, British Museum
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
Anthony Burgess insisted that 'translation is not a matter of words only'. Umberto Eco has said that 'translation is the art of failure'. So, what do translators hope to achieve? What are the practical aspects of the job, and the principles behind it? The panellists will address the status and perception of internation...al literature in the UK today, how appropriate it is for monolingual reviewers to comment on translated work, whether re-translating 'classics' differs from 'front list' translation and how to go about translating a book originally written in Arabic from, say, French. Finally, is there any hope for the future when only 3 per cent of books published in English are translations?

All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141.

Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only).

For more information and to buy tickets, visit:

http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=5564&cat=256&page=1

Supported by:

* The British Museum
* Arts Council England
* The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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with Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-winning translators Anne McLean, Anthea Bell, Daniel Hahn and Frank Wynne
Time:12:00PM Saturday, June 20th
Location:Hamlyn Library, British Museum
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London Review Bookshop
The leading Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh's most recent novel, Only in London, was shortlisted for the 2001 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Also a short-story writer and playwright, she pays particular attention in her work to women's role in society and the relationship between the sexes. Hanan was just seven yea...rs old when her mother, Kamila, sought a divorce from her father, who ran a strictly religious household. She will discuss her memoir The Locust and The Bird: My Mother's Story with Esther Freud, the author of Hideous Kinky and The Sea House, whose work has been translated into 13 languages.

All tickets £8 per event, available online or by calling +44 (0)20 7209 1141.

Concessions: £5, for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs (concessions available from the Bookshop or by phone only).

For more information and to buy tickets, visit:

http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=5563&cat=256&page=1

Supported by:

* The British Museum
* Arts Council England
* The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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Part of World Literature Weekend at the London Review Bookshop
Time:3:00PM Friday, June 19th
Location:BP Room, British Museum
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
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In Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution (Pluto), Crooke traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najaf, Lebanon and the Iranian Revolution’s impact on Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as its response to wester...n thinking based around individualism. He argues that the West faces a mass mobilisation, that Islamists have a vision for the future of their own societies and that resistance is presented as the means to force western behaviour to change. Crooke is a former MI6 officer and was advisor to the EU High Representative in the Middle East 1997–2003. He was involved in the de-escalations of violence and military withdrawals in Palestine from 2000–2003 and the end to the Bethlehem Church of the Nativity siege. He is currently Director and founder of Conflicts Forum.

Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details)

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on Resistance: the Essence of the Islamist Revolution
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, February 24th
Location:London Review Bookshop
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
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In his book How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time (Continuum), Iain King argues that right and wrong need a Newtonian revolution so they are no longer a matter of judgment or guesswork. While dismantling traditional tenets of moral philosophy (...including ‘do unto others...’), he constructs a new, comprehensive system of ethics and identifies the basic DNA of right and wrong. King has been political advisor to Paddy Ashdown on the Northern Ireland Peace Process, a peace-keeping administrator in Kosovo and consultant to Kofi Annan’s Africa Progress Panel.

Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details)

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on How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, February 17th
Location:London Review Bookshop
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
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Something to Tell You (Faber) follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia, on his first love, and on a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. That decade’s sense of sexual freedom..., and the exhilaration of the drug culture, as well as the violent struggle between the forces of labour and capital, provide a backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later as the characters face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved.

Kureishi will be in conversation with John Sutherland, recently Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL, author of many books including How to Read a Novel, and twice chairman of the Man Booker prize.
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in conversation with John Sutherland
Time:7:00PM Thursday, January 29th
Location:London Review Bookshop
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
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Jenny Diski’s new novel Apology for the Woman Writing (Virago) is based on the true story of Marie de Gournay, the passionate and complex young woman who was only 18 when she was so overwhelmed by the work of Michel de Montaigne that she had to ...be revived with hellebore. When he died four years later, she became the editor and champion of his work and a professional writer herself. Diski is a novelist and essayist, and the author of several works of non-fiction, including the award-winning Stranger on a Train. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details)

Book online at http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events

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on Apology for the Woman Writing
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, January 20th
Location:London Review Bookshop
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
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Above a small village in Spain, an English costume designer sees a bright shining star lurch abruptly across the sky. On Christmas Day, a strong, silent man with blank eyes enters Bar Noche Azul. Only a thirteen year old boy could have guessed that there was ...any connection between the two. Mr Roberts is both a coming-of-age story and an unusual take on the corrupting influence of power. Alexei Sayle is a comedian, actor and writer who has contributed to many magazines and newspapers, including the Observer and Independent. He is the author of two collections of short stories and two novels.

Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details)

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reads from Mr Roberts
Time:7:00PM Thursday, December 4th
Location:London Review Bookshop
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
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2008 marks 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba, when over a million Palestinians were forcefully exiled from their cities and villages, civilians were slaughtered and their homes razed to the ground. In The Returns of Zionism (Verso), Piterberg examines the ide...ology, literature and myth behind this colonisation and, by revisiting the work of foundational scholars such as Theodor Herzl and Ben Gurion, and exploring the movement’s origins in central-eastern European nationalism, breaks open the prevailing views of Zionism.

Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details)

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on 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba
Time:7:00PM Thursday, November 27th
Location:London Review Bookshop
London Review Bookshop

London Review Bookshop
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Creative writing and theatre meet at the London Review Bookshop, host of the Fifth Annual Momaya Press Awards Ceremony. The Momaya Press Awards Ceremony will feature dramatic performances of the winning short story entries by the American Repertory Theatre of... London. The event will be lively and engaging, with creative interpretation of the short stories by the actors, and distribution of awards to the authors, followed by a champagne reception.

You’ll be able to meet the writers featured in the Annual Review and the judges who selected the stories. Copies of the Momaya Annual Review 2008, featuring the winning authors, will be available for purchase.


Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details)

Book online at http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events
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Creative writing and theatre meet at the London Review Bookshop
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, November 25th
Location:London Review Bookshop