English Programme
Vendredi 5 septembre
16h – 17h / Château de Morges, caves
English Programme
“Anima: Living with Europe’s last nomads”
With Kapka Kassabova
Moderation : Matthew Wake
Over the course of one summer, Kapka Kassabova lives with perhaps the last true pastoralists in Europe. She joins the epic seasonal movement of vast herds of sheep, along with shepherds and dogs, to find pasture in the mountains. Anima (Marchialy) is a spellbinding portrayal of human–animal interdependence, and a plea for a different way of living – one where we might all begin to heal our broken relationship with the natural world.
Samedi 6 septembre
13h – 14h / La Couronne
English Programme
“Annemarie Schwarzenbach : Writer, traveller, lesbian icon”
With Padraig Rooney
Moderation : Clare O’Dea
Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the 20th century’s most remarkable women, a great political and sexual radical of the 1930s. Padraig Rooney will talk about the short but dramatic life of this beautiful, talented and troubled Swiss writer and about her unique journalism, writing and photography.
Samedi
15h – 16h / Château de Morges, caves
English Programme
“Privilege and Prejudice : Race, class and sexuality”
With Alan Hollinghurst
Moderation : Michelle Bailat-Jones
Both dark and luminous, poignant and funny, Our Evenings (Picador Books) – unfolds over half a century of recent British history. Alan Hollinghurst will talk about race, class, gay liberation, theatre, and sexuality, and will explore how Britain has been changing from the 60s to the pandemic.
Samedi
16h – 17h / La Couronne
English Programme
“Facing the past : Loss, trauma and international politics”
With Caroline Bishop and Jaap Robben
Moderation : Margot Dijkgraaf
Both Jaap Robben and Caroline Bishop explore buried trauma confronted later in life. Silent sorrow, grief, secrets, Catholicism and spying are all touched upon in these beautiful, sensitive, compassionate novels.
Samedi
17h30 – 18h30 / La Couronne
English Programme
“Interrogating Truth, Language and Class in Fiction and in True Crime Writing”
With Natasha Brown and Mark O’Connell
Moderation : Matthew Wake
Both Natasha Brown and Mark O’Connell, in their latest books, are trying to unravel the mysteries surrounding two crimes – one real and one fictional – and attempt to ascertain the truth. Examining the rhetoric of truth and power, the two writers will discuss how they approached their subjects and what it means to be truthful.
Dimanche 7 septembre
11h30 – 12h30 / Château de Morges, Caves
English Programme
“Algeria and Palestine : Diaspora, displacement and Family connections”
With Isabella Hammad and Claire Messud
Moderation : Michelle Bailat-Jones
This Strange Eventful History (W. W. Norton) and Enter Ghost (Random House) are both rich, moving stories of exile, identity and family. Sonia, Isabella Hammad’s main character, tries to find her place in Palestine, her ancestral home, while Claire Messud follows the life of an Algerian family over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, from the colonial past to Algerian independence.
Dimanche
14h30 – 15h30 / La Couronne
English Programme
“Queer Baroque Satire in Colonial Latin America”
With Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Moderation: Tasja Dorkofikis
Based on the real life of Antonio de Erauso, a real figure from the Spanish conquest, who started his life as a teenage nun, We Are Green and Trembling (New Directions Publishing) is a masterful criticism of religious tyranny, brutal colonial history and the mistreatment of women and indigenous people. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is an award-winning Argentinian writer, environmental and feminist activist.
Dimanche
16h – 17h / La Couronne
English Programme
“Dismantling Conspiracies of Silence : a 1941 Anti-Jewish Pogrom in a small Polish Town”
With Anna Bikont
Moderation: Matthew Wake
The Crime and the Silence: A Quest for the truth of a wartime massacre is a masterpiece of historical journalism and reportage. On the 10th July 1941, a horrifying anti-Jewish pogrom was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwabne. Part history, part memoir, part investigation, Anna Bikont’s account shows a small town trying to face its dark past.
The full programme will be available on the 8th of August !