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Writers

Companions: A Reading and Talk by Christina Hesselholdt

University Room: Pierre Salinger Grand Salon (C-103)
6, rue du Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris | Pierre Salinger Grand Salon (Room C-103)
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - 18:30

Copyright / Robin Skjoldborg

By invitation of the Center for Writers & Translators and the Department of Comparative Literature & English, Christina Hesselholdt will read from her English-language debut,ÌýCompanions, which theÌýTheÌýNew York TimesÌýpraised for its 'penetrating insights into the texture of lived experience...in moments of vivid imagery and unexpected humor'. Born in 1962, Hesselholdt studied at the Danish Academy of Creative Writing in Copenhagen. She has written fifteen books of prose; her latest publication in Danish, a novel about the photographer Vivian Maier, won the Danish Radio Best Novel Award and was a finalist for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2017.

Members of the public welcome.

Please RSVP at cwtataup.eduÌýat least twenty-four hours before the event and bring a photo ID.