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Join us in Montmartre this December for a five-day workshop with Janine di Giovanni.

An award-winning author, essayist and journalist, Janine is the author of nine books, a Senior Fellow at Yale, a contributing writer at Vanity Fair, and Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. Over a career spanning more than 35 years, she has reported from 18 wars and documented three genocides, with a focus on human rights and deeply personal reporting.

Her work has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Blake-Dodd Prize for lifetime achievement in non-fiction, and has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Granta, Harper’s, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

A rare opportunity to explore literary long-form nonfiction with one of today’s most distinguished writers of reportage. Her first novel, Evidence, comes out in March 2027.

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Come and read, talk and write poetry in Toulouse Lautrec’s old atelier, with the award-winning poet Catherine Barnett

October 25th-29th

www.themontmartreworkshop.com (link in bio)

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I'm thrilled to be teaching a four-day workshop in Paris this November – in Toulouse Lautrec's former studio in Montmartre! Classes are limited to 10 people and are held from 10:00 am to 13:30pm, with a short coffee and croissant break. We'll meet one evening for an aperitif to discuss all things translation, and there will be a welcome and a farewell dinner and optional activities in the afternoons, including browsing in the storied Shakespeare and Company bookshop.

On the last evening, students will have the opportunity to read from their own work.

Applicants of all levels are invited to apply. The workshop will focus on different kinds of translation, both fiction and non-fiction, and will be very hands-on, with lots of discussion and constructive feedback. In addition we'll discuss the practical aspects of working as a literary translator, including pitching to publishers, drafting and reworking, and of course the impact of AI on the profession, with the aim of giving participants the confidence and tools to begin or continue their journey as translators. I promise it will be a fantastic experience! Please send this on to anyone you know who might be interested. For further details see https://www.themontmartreworkshop.com and to apply write to themontmartreworkshop@gmail.com. Link, as they say, in bio

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Join us in Montmartre this December for a five-day workshop with Janine di Giovanni.

An award-winning author, essayist and journalist, Janine is the author of nine books, a Senior Fellow at Yale, a contributing writer at Vanity Fair, and Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. Over a career spanning more than 35 years, she has reported from 18 wars and documented three genocides, with a focus on human rights and deeply personal reporting.

Her work has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Blake-Dodd Prize for lifetime achievement in non-fiction, and has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Granta, Harper’s, The New York Times and The Washington Post. After nine published critically acclaimed books, her first novel “Evidence” will be published in the Spring of 2027.

A rare opportunity to explore literary long-form nonfiction with one of today’s most distinguished writers of reportage. Sign up at the Montmartre workshop. https://www.themontmartreworkshop.com/

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Applications are now open for our poetry - with a dash of fiction - workshop with Catherine Barnett. The award-winning author of four poetry collections, her work has been published in the New Yorker, the Yale Review and many other publications. She is also a Guggenheim fellow and the recipient of an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters. Catherine teaches at the NYU’s MFA programme in creative writing. Book now to secure your spot!

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Goedemorgen! @collectiefbezet in het @middelheimmuseum was zo goed: lezen onder een boom is zalig 📚 #elsleest

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Calling all bilinguals!

What do we inherit from our families, our languages, our countries? How do we tell the story of who we are?

Join acclaimed French writer Colombe Schneck for a four-day bilingual workshop exploring origins, identity, memory and belonging through reading, discussion and writing.

Author of eleven books and winner of the Madame Figaro Prize and the Société des Gens de Lettres Prize, her work has also been shortlisted for the Renaudot, Femina and Interallié prizes, and she has held residencies at the Villa Medici in Rome and the Institut Français.

D’où venez-vous ? 13-17th September. Applications open now on themontmartreworkshop.com (link in bio)

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My friend Oscar Peterson mon Ami Oscar

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We have just two spaces left for our workshop with Hisham Matar in May- June. Send in your applications asap!

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🧡 @spanishorangesplay @theplaygroundtheatre

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"Would you like a drink... Peter?"

'Spanish Oranges'. Written by Alba Arikha, directed by Miriam Cyr.

Certain mind games ensue between an author and an interviewer as the former is publicising her new novel; which shares its title with the play.
Clever set design enhances this production at The Playground Theatre in West London; well performed by Jay Villiers, Arianna Branca and Maryam D'Abo.
I'll confess: D'Abo's famous '87 film role was my main reason for attending. But it's a worthwhile night at the theatre for more than just that...
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#SpanishOranges
#MaryamDAbo
#JayVilliers
#ArianaBranca
#PlaygroundTheatre

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★★★★ "A mightily enjoyable play" (The Independent)

Get your tickets for the final two performances of Spanish Oranges NOW 🍊

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