What is "reality" in fiction and what is "truth" in a literary sense ? A discussion about Absence by Lucie Paye, trans. Natasha Lehrer
 
Tickets are £5 and include a drink. Purchase here for ticket only. Books will be available to purchase on the night.
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Lucie Paye’s debut novel published by Éditions Gallimard in March 2020 was published this year by Les Fugitives in Natasha Lehrer’s translation. An extraordinary and lyrical UK debut listed in the Financial Times’ mid-year best fiction in translation, Absence is set in Paris, Mauritius and London, and tells the stories of an artist and a mysterious woman he obsessively paints and draws.
 
 
Author and translator will be interviewed to share their perspectives on fiction and literary truth in the context of Annie Ernaux's reception of the Nobel Prize.