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Faïza Guène examines the linguistic and cultural chasm between French-Algerian immigrants and the Parisian establishment with her translator Sarah Ardizzone.
Faïza Guène is a French writer and film director, born to Algerian parents in 1985. She wrote her first novel, Kiffe Kiffe demain (published in English as Just Like Tomorrow), when she was 17 years old. It was a huge success in France, and has been translated throughout the world. Guène’s work breaks out of the Francophone ghetto to offer a remarkable dialogue between the disenfranchised banlieues and ‘metropolitan’ France. Rooted in disarming observational comedy, her novels give voice both to the Arabic-influenced backslang (verlan) spoken by young immigrants and the ‘straight’ French of her education, in a creative mix skilfully rendered by her translator and co-speaker, Sarah Ardizzone. Dubbed ‘the Sagan of the suburbs’, Guène develops her political concerns, comic flair and linguistic inventiveness in her second book Dreams from the Endz (Vintage).
Faïza Guène was born in France in 1985 to Algerian parents. Her first novel, Just Like Tomorrow, was a huge success in France, selling over 360,000 copies. She lives in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris.
Sarah Ardizzone was highly praised for her translation of Just Like Tomorrow, winning the Scott-Moncrieff Prize 2007. She specialises in translating urban slang, and has spent time living in Marseille to pick up ‘Beur’ backslang.
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20 June 2009 at 4:00 pm |
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BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum |
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London Review Bookshop |
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£8 (£5) |
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To book tickets please see www.lrbshop.co.uk/worldliteratureweekend call +44 (0)20 7209 1141 or drop in at the London Review Bookshop. Ticket are £8 (£5 concessions). Tickets include postage. Concessionary rates available for LRB subscribers, Friends of the British Museum, students and OAPs |
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For more information on World Literature Weekend see www.lrbshop.co.uk/worldliteratureweekend |
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