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Translating Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s "Seven Stones"
The Book Office is delighted to present the Book of the week: Seven Stones, by Vénus Khoury-Ghata. Aneesa Abbas Higgins, translator of...
Woman at Sea, Catherine Poulain
This week, discover what Le Monde described as 'a tale of travel and adventure, the story of a body utterly surrendered to pain and joy....
Happy Literary Valentine’s Day!
Your better half is away? You are too tired to go out? You are single anyway? … … Well, that doesn’t matter at all, because what we would...
Georges Simenon’s birthday, a celebration in translation
The Book Office is delighted to celebrate Georges Simenon’s 115th birthday today! (Wait, are we a day too early? It seems that the...
Homage to the writer Mathieu Riboulet
The Book Office is sad to announce the loss of Mathieu Riboulet, who passed away yesterday in Bordeaux. Aged 57, Mathieu Riboulet had...
Burgess 2018 Grant: the results!
Ahoy, bookworms! It gives us great joy, here at the Book Office, to announce the list of books we’re be supporting the translation of...
« About My Mother »: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s novel longlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize
The Book Office is thrilled to announce that Tahar Ben Jelloun’s remarkable novel About My Mother made it to the longlist of the first...
Homage to the famous French Publisher Jean-Claude Lattès
It is with great sadness that we learnt about the decease of Jean-Claude Lattès, on January 27th, in Paris, at the age of 76. Jean-Claude...
Books of the Night!
At the Book Office, we are very happy to welcome tonight the 'Night of ideas'! Some of our speakers and guests have published books....
Karol Beffa, a musician who writes
We are very honoured to announce that Karol Beffa will attend to the 2nd edition of the 'Night of Ideas' at the French Institute on...
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