Personal Politics with Brit Bild

• LocationLondon
• Type
• Salary
• Artformliterature, translation
• ContactBox Office info@freewordcentre.com

Description

If you love exploring the world, storytelling and books, join us on our monthly fictional journey that’s just as rewarding as (and less exhausting than) the real thing. Whether you’re a London local or new to the city, come and connect with others who want to see the world with fresh eyes and open minds.

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway’s Utøya Island, Otto and Sofie are trying to put the pieces of their life back together without their beloved daughter, who was murdered alongside countless other youths on one of the worst days in Norway’s history.

Hear award-winning Norwegian writer Brit Bildøen read from her latest book Seven Days in August, translated by Becky Crook. It is the story of Otto and Sofie’s grief, painstakingly narrated over just one week – a window into their attempts to navigate a life together, face to face with their own helplessness and mortality. Told in Bildøen’s signature lyrical prose, the story slowly unfurls the horrors of a national tragedy, while peeling back the layers of sorrow that infect relationships over time. Brit will be in conversation with Dr Meg Jensen, Director of Life Narrative Research Group at Kingston University.

The reading will be followed by a discussion of how Bildøen’s fiction weaves together the personal and the national, the domestic and the epic, and touches on her interest in contemporary climate fiction. Translator Becky Crook will contribute on video exploring her role in translating Seven Days in August from Norwegian into English.

This event takes place on Monday 14 November 2016, 6:45 - 9:00pm.
Click here to book tickets.

This event is part of Wanderlust: Great Literature from Around the World, a monthly event series at Free Word that takes place on the second Monday of each month and celebrates the best fiction in translation.

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Personal Politics with Brit Bild