Following Sylvain Prudhomme's visit on October 1, we welcomed another special guest to our specialist library on the Wall on October 18:
The multi-award-winning writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr spoke at the literary matinée with Andrea Renker, Pankhuri Bhatt and Helena Sawilla about his novel La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (Prix Goncourt 2021), which was published in French in 2021. It was about people's most secret memories, about the role that literature can play in life. Sarr spoke about the politics of the canon, about commitment to literature, about his own life and writing between languages and continents, and talked about what carrying Kafka with you can lead to.
The unique opportunity to ask the author questions and go home with a personal dedication in their own book was gladly taken up by many members of the audience. Thank you very much, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, for your time, it was wonderful.
The event took place as part of the Transnational Literature Festival World Word Travelers, which, under the direction of Fiston Mwanza Mujila (curator, Forum Stadtpark) and Robert Reithofer (ISOP), invited people to take a look at literature and its interpretative horizons beyond Eurocentric boundaries for the fourth time this year(https://www.weltwortreisende.at/).
Thank you to the Romance Studies Department of the University of Graz for allowing us to be part of the festival again this year and thank you to Alexandra Marics for the perfect German-French translation of the event.