Nordic Authors You Should Know at Scandinavia House continues with a focus on Sami literature with Johanna Domokos and Saami poet, musician, and scriptwriter Niillas Holmberg. Moderated by Harald Gaski. The panelists will discuss Sami literature and culture today. Please send audience questions ahead of the discussion to info@amscan.org.
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions have typically taken place the last Tuesday of the month at Scandinavia House but will now be taking place bi-weekly as an online meeting.
Nov, 4th, 1.00pm EST/6.00pm GMT John, the New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Bones (Hodder /Stoughton) goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker’s astonishing career in his brand new novel The Dirty South: A Thriller (Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books). John will be in conversation with NYU’s Dr. John Waters. This event will run for…
In this special upcoming children's literary event, created with permission from Kids Can Press, hear and learn about the children's novel Paws + Edward with Norwegian author Espen Dekko and illustrator Mari Kanstad Johnsen! A heartbreaking and heart-lifting story of loss.
The Consulate General of Germany New York and Deutsches Haus at NYU, in collaboration with the German Language School Conference (GLSC), present a reading from Reckless 4, the most recently published novel by Cornelia Funke, followed by a conversation between the acclaimed German storyteller and illustrator and Juliane Camfield, Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU. This reading and conversation, which…
November 18th, 12:30pm EST/5:30pm GMT On November 18th, Brian Dooley will share his reflections on his, now twenty-year old book, Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America (Pluto Press). Click to register Find out more about our research initiatives in this vein here: https://as.nyu.edu/irelandhouse/academic-initiatives/black--brown-and-green-voices.html This is an event is in collaboration with NYU's Office of…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between Jonas Lüscher and Tess Lewis about Jonas Lüscher's most recent novel, Kraft, and the function of political fiction in a polarized world, which will be moderated by Ulrich Baer. Book cover “Kraft” About the novel: “Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging…
To sign up for this event, click here. Thousands of naturalized French men and women had their citizenship revoked by the Vichy government during the Second World War. Once denaturalized, these men and women, mostly Jews who were later sent to concentration camps, ceased being French on official records and walked off the pages of history. As a result, we…
The Mews Book Club, curated by Catherine Cusset, is back! Explore new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The book to be discussed is D'autres vies que la mienne by Emmanuel Carrère. Please purchase and read the book in advance. You can purchase the paperback version on Albertine's website or on Amazon.
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here to purchase Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul from Book Culture NYC. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a presentation of the new…
