Book Launch
Nov
28
6:30 PM18:30

Book Launch

To celebrate the publication of Charlotte Beeston’s debut novel The White Flower, join us at the Riverside Bookshop (London Bridge) for an evening with the author.
NB: Entry is free, but space and facilities are limited, so if you would like to attend please confirm by email to info@lesfugitives.com to be added to the guest list.

The Riverside Bookshop, 15 Hay’s Galleria, Tooley Street, London SE1 2QN

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Book Launch: Célina by Catherine Axelrad (tr. Philip Terry) at Brick Lane Bookshop
Jun
28
7:00 PM19:00

Book Launch: Célina by Catherine Axelrad (tr. Philip Terry) at Brick Lane Bookshop

We will be celebrating the launch of Célina by Catherine Axelrad, translated by Philip Terry, at Brick Lane Bookshop on the 28th of June at 7pm. As the book’s release date is the 18th of July, this is a great opportunity to get your copy early!

There will be a reading by the author as well as a Q&A with the translator, and of course the opportunity to have your copy of Célina signed. Refreshments will be provided. Tickets are £5 each, available from the Brick Lane Bookshop website.

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Les Fugitives at Offprint London 2024
May
17
to May 19

Les Fugitives at Offprint London 2024

  • Turbine Hall, Tate Modern (map)
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This year, Offprint London returns to the Tate Modern for the eighth time from Friday the 17th to Sunday the 19th of May, featuring a range of independent and experimental publishers. Les Fugitives will be there, so come along for a chat and to browse through our books! The first copies of Célina by Catherine Axelrad will be available exclusively from our stall at Offprint, a full two months before publication.

Entry is free, and details are available from the Offprint London website.

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Emilienne Malfatto at the French Institute London
May
15
7:00 PM19:00

Emilienne Malfatto at the French Institute London

Emilienne Malfatto, author of May the Tigris Grieve for You, translated by Lorna Scott Fox, will be making an exceptional visit to the UK for a reading of her work by Maia Mutawi, Naima Rashid, and Lorna Scott Fox as part of the Beyond Words Festival. All details and tickets can be found on the festival event page.

May the Tigris Grieve for You was longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize.

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Penelope Curtis at Typewronger Books, Edinburgh
Apr
29
7:00 PM19:00

Penelope Curtis at Typewronger Books, Edinburgh

On Monday the 29th of April, Penelope Curtis will be at Typewronger Books in Edinburgh to celebrate the release of her first novel, After Nora with a reading and Q&A, followed by drinks. Details can be found on the Typewronger Facebook events page and will soon be available to view on the Typewronger website events list. The event is free.

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Les Fugitives at Offprint Paris
Nov
9
to Nov 12

Les Fugitives at Offprint Paris

  • Pavillon de l'Arsenal (map)
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From the 9th to the 12th of November, Les Fugitives will be at Offprint Paris at the Pavilion de l’Arsenal alongside a selection of independant, experimental and socially engaged publishers in the fields of art, architecture, design, humanities and visual culture. There is a programme of talks and events throughout. See the Offprint website for details.

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Small Publishers Fair
Oct
27
to Oct 28

Small Publishers Fair

Les Fugitives will be at this year’s Small Publishers Fair, which features publishers, writers, book designers and artists. The fair will be held at Conway Hall in London from 11am to 7pm on the 27th and 28th of October and will include an exhibition, readings and talks. Entry is free. For more information, see the Small Publishers Fair website.

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Chicanes Launch Party at Ink@84 Books
Mar
7
6:30 PM18:30

Chicanes Launch Party at Ink@84 Books

Join us at Ink@84 in North London to celebrate the launch of Chicanes by Clara Schulmann, translated by Lauren Elkin, Natasha Lehrer, Naima Rashid, Ruth Diver, Sophie Lewis, Jessica Spivey, Jennifer Higgins, and Clem Clement.

This is a free event, with an option to buy a copy of the book (free drink with every purchase!).

“This beautiful and original book [...] captures the sounds of women’s emotions; the overflow of excess and the lapse into silence.” – Laura Mulvey

For more information and tickets, please follow this link.

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OK Translator 2.2: CHICANES with Clara Schulmann, Lauren Elkin, Sophie Lewis and Naima Rashid
Mar
6
7:00 PM19:00

OK Translator 2.2: CHICANES with Clara Schulmann, Lauren Elkin, Sophie Lewis and Naima Rashid

“This beautiful and original book [...] captures the sounds of women’s emotions; the overflow of excess and the lapse into silence.” – Laura Mulvey

For the second event in Foyles’ OK Translator programme, Clara Schulmann and three of her translators – Lauren Elkin, Sophie Lewis and Naima Rashid – will be in conversation with Catherine Taylor about Chicanes, Schulmann’s study in the female voice.

Chicanes creates a portrait of female consciousness through a subtly crafted use of voice. Clara Schulmann is planning an essay and in the process gathers the voices of numerous female figures in the history of feminist writing and thought, and of other women she speaks to, from telephone conversations with friends to strangers on the street. These voices begin to shape the form and meaning of her essay in ways she did not expect. In a further fine-tuning of Clara Schulmann’s experiment in female voice, her work comes into English through the work of eight female translators.

For more information and tickets, please follow this link.

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ABSENCE at Borderless Book Club - online event
Feb
16
8:00 PM20:00

ABSENCE at Borderless Book Club - online event

On the 16th of February, Borderless Book Club will be featuring Absence by Lucie Paye, translated by Natasha Lehrer. Borderless Book Club is an online event series dedicated to translated literature that takes place online (via Zoom) on every third Thursday of the month. Their aim is to provide an accessible discussion space where readers can meet and hear directly from translators and publishers.

On Absence, Ángel Gurría-Quintana wrote: ‘In this remarkable debut, the story of a painter fixated with a ghostly female figure becomes entwined with the story of a woman seeking to connect with a long-lost son. A delicate tale of artistic obsession and creation, and a moving meditation on longing and loss.’ — Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2022

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Lauren Elkin at The Hearth, Queens Park
Jan
30
7:00 PM19:00

Lauren Elkin at The Hearth, Queens Park

"Lauren Elkin is one of our most valuable critical thinkers - the Susan Sontag of her generation." - Deborah Levy

At an evening organised by Trouble Club, Lauren Elkin will talk about No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute, as well as the process of translating The Inseperables, the continued significance of feminist writers like Simone de Beauvoir and how her love of French culture translates onto the page.

More info and tickets here: https://www.thetroubleclub.com/events/lauren-elkin-on-simone-de-beauvoir-and-a-year-on-the-bus

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ART, ABSENCE AND TRANSLATION WITH LUCIE PAYE, MICHÈLE ROBERTS & NATASHA LEHRER
Oct
14
6:30 PM18:30

ART, ABSENCE AND TRANSLATION WITH LUCIE PAYE, MICHÈLE ROBERTS & NATASHA LEHRER

  • Institut français du Royaume-Uni (map)
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Listed in the Financial Times‘ mid-year best fiction in translation, Lucie Paye‘s remarkable debut novel Absence delves into the artistic process. While a painter battling against the blank canvas sees a mysterious female figure emerge under his brushes, a dying woman writes to her long-lost son.

Joined by Michèle Roberts, whose latest novel Cut Out focuses on the young women assisting Matisse in the making of his famous cut-outs, Lucie Paye and her translator Natasha Lehrer, will discuss art as creation and destruction, the creative role of the unconscious, the power of love against loss and translation as a revelatory process.

Tickets and more info here.

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Shumona Sinha and Maylis de Kerangal in conversation with Lauren Elkin and Russell Williams
Sep
27
6:30 PM18:30

Shumona Sinha and Maylis de Kerangal in conversation with Lauren Elkin and Russell Williams

  • Institut Français de Royaume Uni (map)
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Meet Shumona Sinha and Maylis de Kerangal in a conversation about their newly translated short novels, Down with the Poor! and Eastbound.

Joined by translator & author Lauren Elkin and Russel Williams, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature (American University of Paris), they will discuss states of confinement and State violence, freedom of movement and freedom of speech, identification (or not) with the Other (with or without a common language), and the role of literature in revealing boundaries as grey areas.

Tickets and more info here.

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Maylis De Kerangal & Saima Mir at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Aug
27
3:30 PM15:30

Maylis De Kerangal & Saima Mir at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Where are we safe? Maylis de Kerangal’s Eastbound tells the story of a Russian conscript looking for escape on the Trans-Siberian railway and finding a French woman who might offer it. The Khan, Saima Mir’s debut, follows a British-Asian lawyer as she returns to her northern hometown after her father’s murder, which has left a crime syndicate in disarray.

More information and tickets here.

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Shumona Sinha & Fatima Daas at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Aug
26
4:15 PM16:15

Shumona Sinha & Fatima Daas at Edinburgh International Book Festival

The outsider experience is central to the newly translated, prize-winning novels by Fatima Daas and Shumona Sinha. In her rhapsodic debut, The Last One, Daas tries to find herself amid the contradictions of being French-Algerian, Muslim and gay. Sinha’s critically acclaimed Down with the Poor! offers a deeply emotional account and morally complex critique of European asylum systems and the bureaucracies and mindsets upholding the status quo.

More info and tickets here.

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Launch for ABSENCE by Lucie Paye, at Tenderbooks
Jun
21
6:00 PM18:00

Launch for ABSENCE by Lucie Paye, at Tenderbooks

We invite you to join Lucie Paye and her translator Natasha Lehrer, to toast the publication of Lucie’s debut novel Absence on 21 June, at Tenderbooks, just a few minutes away from the National Gallery (which features in the book!)

Starts at 6pm, with a reading from Lucie at 6.45pm.

Please RSVP to Jessie, at publicist@lesfugitives.com

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Joanna Walsh in conversation with Lauren Elkin
Jun
16
7:00 PM19:00

Joanna Walsh in conversation with Lauren Elkin

To mark the launch of Girl Online: A User Manual, acclaimed author Joanna Walsh will be in conversation with Lauren Elkin to discuss several points raised in the book about ‘What happens when a woman goes online?’ Lauren Elkin’s No. 91/92: notes on a Parisian commute was published by Les Fugitives last year.

The event will be held at Camden Art Centre and is free to attend. For more information and to book online, please see the Camden Art Centre’s event page here.

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Jeanne Benameur and Bill Johnston, in conversation with Tice Cin
May
16
6:30 PM18:30

Jeanne Benameur and Bill Johnston, in conversation with Tice Cin

On the opening night of this year’s Beyond Words Festival, Jeanne Benameur and her translator Bill Johnston will be in conversation with critically acclaimed debut author of Keeping the House Tice Cin.

They will discuss Jeanne’s recently published UK debut The Child Who and its poetic exploration of grief, intergenerational silences, the limits of hospitality and nature's power to heal, interspersed with live readings from the book in French and English.

More information and tickets here.

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Jeanne Benameur and Bill Johnston in conversation
May
14
2:00 PM14:00

Jeanne Benameur and Bill Johnston in conversation

As part of this year’s Beyond Words Festival in Scotland, Jeanne Benameur will be in conversation with her translator Bill Johnston.

They will discuss Jeanne’s recently published UK debut The Child Who and its poetic exploration of grief, intergenerational silences, the limits of hospitality and nature's power to heal, interspersed with live readings from the book in French and English.

More information and tickets here.

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Lauren Elkin in conversation with Matthew Beaumont at UCL Urban Laboratory
May
5
6:00 PM18:00

Lauren Elkin in conversation with Matthew Beaumont at UCL Urban Laboratory

Join Lauren Elkin and UCL Urban Laboratory co-director & English Literature Professor Matthew Beaumont at UCL, where they’ll be discussing Lauren’s love letter to Paris in iPhone notes No.91/92: notes on a Parisian commute.

From musings on Virginia Woolf and Georges Perec, to her first impressions in the aftermath of the 2015 terrorist attacks, Lauren Elkin’s bus diary queries the lines between togetherness and being apart, between the everyday and the eventful, as she registers the ordinary makings of a city and its people.

The event is free and can be booked here.

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