ONLINE SALES CLOSED. TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR @ ST PETER DE BEAUVOIR FROM 10.30 AM SAT 16 OCT
Join us to hear new fictions that range across modes, combining reportage, poetry, screenplays and more, to revitalise our reading experience, with authors Mona Arshi and Juliet Jacques, and translator Thomas Bunstead speaking about Agustín Fernández Mallo.
Sat 16 Oct, 1.30-2.30pm, chaired by Nisha Ramayya
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Mona Arshi lives in West London. She worked as a human rights lawyer with the NGO Liberty for a decade. Mona Arshi regularly appears on BBC Radio 4. Her poetry has won the Forward Prize and been published in The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Times of India and most recently appeared on the London Underground.
Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Agustín Fernández Mallo, María Gainza and Enrique Vila-Matas, and he is twice a winner of PEN Translates Awards. His own writing has appeared in publications such as Brixton Review of Books, LitHub and The Paris Review, and his novel Semblance was shortlisted for the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize. He is currently a Royal Literary Fellow, teaching at Aberystwyth University. He was born in London and now lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She is the author of Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study (Dalkey Archive, 2007) and Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2015). Her landmark column on gender reassignment appeared in The Guardian, entitled ‘A Transgender Journey’ (2010-12) and she has written for London Review of Books, Granta, Sight & Sound, Frieze, Art Review, New York Times, and many more. Juliet was included on The Independent on Sunday Pink List of influential LGBT people in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Nisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and is currently based in London. Her collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Recent poems and essays can be found in The Contemporary Journal, Spam Zine, and audiograft festival of experimental music and sound art.
Author photo © Edmund Hardy.