Anne Berest: “The Postcard, Gabriële, and Writing True Novels"

Wed Apr 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Devlin Hall | Chestnut Hill

Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College
Publisher/HostLowell Humanities Series at Boston College
Anne Berest: \u201cThe Postcard, Gabri\u00eble, and Writing True Novels"
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Anne Berest, acclaimed French author, joins the Lowell Humanities Series.
About this Event

Anne Berest’s first novel to appear in English, The Postcard, was a national bestseller, a Library Journal, NPR, and TIME Best Book of the Year, a Vogue Most Anticipated Book of the Year, and a finalist for the Goncourt Prize in France. It was described as “stunning” by Leslie Camhi in The New Yorker, as a “powerful literary work” by Julie Orringer in The New York Times Book Review, and as “intimate, profound, essential” in ELLE magazine. With her sister Claire Berest, she is also the author of Gabriële, a critically acclaimed, best-selling “true novel” based on the life of her great-grandmother Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, wife of Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp’s lover and muse, a leader of the French Resistance, and an art critic. Berest lives in Paris with her family.

Cosponsored by the Boston College Fiction Days Series.

All Lowell Humanities Series lectures are free and open to the public. Registration via Eventbrite is required for in-person attendance.

The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost's Office.

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Devlin Hall, 255 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, United States

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