About this Event
Sponsored by Center for the Art of Translation
In a nameless country under military occupation, two friends prepare to attend a wedding. The young man is from the occupied region (“This Place“), the woman is from the occupying nation-state (“That Place”). The complicated relationship between these two protagonists is tested when, on the eve of the wedding, the occupying power, That Place, formally annexes This Place and declares a curfew. Profoundly timely to Ukraine and the rise of neo-fascism, This Place That Place explores the intersections between the personal and the political; between occupier and occupied; between the kinds of bonds that endure, and those that have no choice but to fracture. Nandita Dinesh discusses her work with Alta's California Book Club editor Anita Feliceli.
Nandita Dinesh holds a PhD in Drama from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and an MA in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Focused on the role that theatre and writing can play during and after violent conflict, Nandita has conducted community-based theatre projects in Kashmir, India, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. She has written multiple books about her work, and in 2017 was awarded the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy by Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
Anita Felicelli is the author of the novel Chimerica, and the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent, which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Her essays, reviews, and criticism have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Alta Journal, the New York Times (Modern Love) and elsewhere. She serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle as its Fiction Committee Chair for '22 (VP of Fundraising '21) and edits Alta Journal's California Book Club. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Drawing Room: Annex, 780 Valencia Street, San Francisco, United States
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