Inprint | Aminatta Forna & Samanta Schweblin

Start: 
Monday, March 26, 2018 - 7:30pm
Location: 
615 Texas Ave
Houston, TX 77002

General admission tickets $5 on sale Tuesday, February 13, 2018

AMINATTA FORNA “is a born storyteller,” writes The Boston Globe. Her novels include The Hired Man, named a best book of the year by NPR and the San Francisco Chronicle; The Memory of Love, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Best Book Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award; and Ancestor Stones, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and named a New York Times Editor's Choice book. Her memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water tells the story of going back to Sierra Leone to investigate the execution of her dissident father. She received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize and was a finalist for the 2016 Neustadt Prize. Her work has been translated into 16 languages. She will be reading from her novel Happiness, coming out in March 2018. Set in modern day London, a chance encounter and a tale of love, loss, cruelty, and kindness raise questions about the meaning of happiness.

“SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN is one of the most promising voices in modern literature,” according to Mario Vargas Llosa. Fever Dreams, her first novel and the first of her books to be translated into English from Spanish, was a finalist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. Kirkus, in a starred review, calls it “a taut, exquisite page-turner.... In a literary thriller of the highest order, Schweblin teases out the underlying anxieties of being vulnerable and loving vulnerable creatures and of being an inhabitant of a planet with an increasingly uncertain future.” The New Yorker says “the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether.” She is also the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and was named to Granta’s list of best writers in Spanish under 35. Her story collection Pájaros en la Boca (Mouthful of Birds), for which she received the Casa de las Américas Prize, will come out in English in 2018. Born in Argentina, she now lives in Germany.

Reading followed by on-stage interview, book sale and signing.


 

Happiness By Aminatta Forna Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780802127556
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - March 6th, 2018

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Fever Dream: A Novel By Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (Translated by) Cover Image
By Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (Translated by)
$25.00
ISBN: 9780399184598
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Published: Riverhead Books - January 10th, 2017