International Writers Series: Travels through Time
For our International Writers series, join Igiaba Scego, author of The Color Line (Other Press), and Kirmen Uribe, author of Bilbao—New York—Bilbao (Coffee House Press), as they discuss their new novels with Anderson Tepper.
How do we experience the past—how do we travel through time and memory—in both countries and families? What are the unifying threads that link generations? In Igiabo Scego’s The Color Line, a Somali-Italian curator re-discovers the story of a nineteenth century African-American artist in Rome, which connects her further with the fate of contemporary migrants. While Basque writer Kirmen Uribe’s Bilbao—New York—Bilbao takes off on a thrilling voyage across the sea and through the murky realms of family lore to explore lost meanings in far-off fishing villages, museums, and even airports.
The Color Line and Bilbao—New York—Bilbao will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Greenlight Bookstore.
Participants
Igiaba Scego was born in Rome in 1974 to a family of Somali ancestry. She is the author of the novel Beyond Babylon and a memoir, which won Italy’s prestigious Mondello Prize, and is a frequent contributor to several of Italy’s leading magazines and newspapers. Photo by Simona Filippini
Kirmen Uribe, the Basque author of two collections of poems and four novels, is one of the most widely-translated writers of his generation in Spain. He won Spain’s National Prize for Literature for his first novel, Bilbao—New York—Bilbao.
Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the International Committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival and has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and World Literature Today, among other publications.
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