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Third Place Books welcomes authors Marie Darrieussecq and Anne de Marcken to our Ravenna store for a conversation about Marie's books, Our Life in the Forest and How to Make a Woman, both translated by Penny Hueston and published simultaneously by Transit Books. Author and interdisciplinary artist Anne de Marcken joins in conversation.This event is presented in partnership with the Alliance Française de Seattle.
For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
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Marie Darrieussecq’s first book, Pig Tales, became an overnight sensation and bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies and translated into more than thirty languages—since then, she has gone on to publish twenty more, including Being Here Is Everything, a literary investigation into the life of the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, and the novels Men, The Baby, Our Life in the Forest, and, most recently, How to Make a Woman. The New Yorker described her as France’s “best young novelist,” and she is recognized as one of the leading voices of French contemporary literature. Her novel Men was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix in 2013.
Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Salasc and Patrick Modiano and eight books by Marie Darrieussecq. She has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize, and she was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.
Anne de Marcken is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She is author of the novel It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over and the lyric novella The Accident: An Account. Her writing has been featured in Best New American Voices, Brick, Ploughshares, Narrative, Elastic, on NPR and elsewhere, garnering numerous awards including The Novel Prize, The Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize, and the Cabell First Novel Prize. She runs the innovative small press The 3rd Thing.
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6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98115
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