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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: An Evening with French Writer Mathias Énard Tuesday, October 31, 2017 “Énard has written a masterful novel that speaks to our current, confused moment in history by highlighting the manifold, vital contributions of Islamic and other Middle Eastern cultures to the European canon. More than that, it points toward, as one character puts it, ‘a new vision that includes the other in the self.’ ” Andrew Ervin, The Washington PostFrench novelist Mathias Énard is the award-winning author of Zone (2008) and Street of Thieves (2012), and a translator from Persian and Arabic. He won the Prix Goncourt (France’s oldest and most prestigious literary prize) in 2015 for Compass. The novel, translated like previous ones by Bard’s own Charlotte Mandell, was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.For more information, please contact Professor Éric Trudel at [email protected] Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program; Written Arts Program; the Book Department at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy Contact: Éric Trudel. E-mail: [email protected] If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/writtenarts/events/