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Events at the Shop

Over its six years, the London Review Bookshop has hosted an outstanding events programme, with readings, debates and conversations heard by packed houses. Nearly all these events have been recorded for the Bookshop by archivists Common Custom, and we are delighted to be able to make a small selection of these recordings available on this site.

This list will continue to grow over time. If you find you’ve missed another sell-out event, do check back here to catch up.

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Daniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits - World Literature Weekend 2011

Sunday 19 June 2011

Daniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits

Novelists Daniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits share interests in their work in biography, genius and failure, charisma and the question of how to give voice to real historical figures but have differences too; both make fuel for a very interesting conversation.

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Crime Fiction: Reading Scars - Karin Alvtegen and Håkan Nesser - World Literature Weekend 2011

Sunday 19 June 2011

Karin Alvtegen and Hakan Nesser

Award-winning Swedish crime writers Karin Alvtegen and Håkan Nesser, chaired by Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, lecturer in Scandinavian Literature at UCL, explore the power behind crime fiction’s gripping narratives, its incisive portrayal of society and its confrontation with ideas of good and evil in a shades-of-grey world, where simple moral certainties aren’t so easy to find.

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Live Translation - World Literature Weekend 2011

Sunday 19 June 2011

Shaun Whiteside, Mike Mitchell, Daniel Kehlmann, Daniel Hahn

Two translators – Shaun Whiteside and Mike Mitchell – went head to head with their versions of a previously untranslated work. Novelist Daniel Kehlmann provided the challenge, with the event chaired by Daniel Hahn, interim director of the BCLT and chair of the Translators Association.

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Manuel Rivas - World Literature Weekend 2011

Saturday 18 June 2011

Manuel Rivas

Writing in El País, Jordi Gracia described Os libros arden mal as ‘a novel that could have been history or biography, but is instead a work of literature written by an author at the height of his powers’. Manuel Rivas read from his work and talked with Jonathan Dunne, who has translated several of his books into English.

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Ramsey Nasr and Ruth Padel - World Literature Weekend 2011

Saturday 18 June 2011

Ramsey Nasr and Ruth Padel

Prize-winning poet, essayist, dramatist and actor Ramsey Nasr was voted Poet Laureate of the Netherlands in 2009. Nasr was in conversation with prizewinning British poet Ruth Padel, who has published seven poetry collections, a wide range of non-fiction, and a novel, Where the Serpent Lives.

> Listen to this event

Cees Nooteboom and A.S. Byatt - World Literature Weekend 2011

Friday 17 June 2011

A.S. Byatt and Cees Nooteboom

One of the Netherlands’ most distinguished living authors, Cees Nooteboom discussed short stories, death and translation with A.S. Byatt. Chaired by Jan Dalley, Arts Editor of the Financial Times.

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Catalonia: Place of a Language - World Literature Weekend 2011

Friday 17 June 2011

Najat el Hachmi, Carles Casajuana, Teresa Solana

Catalan novelists Najat el Hachmi, Carles Casajuana and Teresa Solana, chaired by Peter Bush, discussed their work and the experience of being Catalan novelists.

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Forthcoming events

May

Edith Grossman in conversation with Daniel Hahn

Friday 24 May at 7.00 p.m.


World Literature Series 2012-13


May

T.J. Clark: Picasso and Truth

Tuesday 28 May at 7.00 p.m.

Wu Ming: Altai

Wednesday 29 May at 7.00 p.m.


June

London Fictions: with Rachel Lichtenstein, Cathi Unsworth and Lisa Gee

Tuesday 4 June at 7.00 p.m.

Paul Morley: The North (and Almost Everything in It)

Thursday 6 June at 7.00 p.m.

William Fotheringham: Racing Hard

Tuesday 11 June at 7.00 p.m.


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