Major Francophone author Amélie Nothomb will be participating in a Kent conference in Paris next week, on 15-16 May 2014, co-organised by Dr Ana de Medeiros, Reader in the Department of French and Director of the University of Kent, Paris.
Amélie Nothomb is a prolific Belgian writer. Her first novel, Hygiène de l’assassin, (Europa Editions, 1992) was published 22 years ago, and she has published a new novel nearly every year since. She has won the prestigious French literary prizes, Prix Alain-Fournier (in 1993) and Le Grand Prix du Roman (in 1999).
The conference builds upon Nothomb’s ever-growing body of work, to investigate the elements of identity, memory and place either alone or conjugated together. For example, what are the spaces and the topoi – recurrent or unique – of the Nothombian literary universe? How is the relationship between character and time, or character and place written? What is the nature of identity – past or present – in the face of abandoned places or those found again?
For more details on the conference, please see the Paris event page here:
www.kent.ac.uk/paris/events/2014-05-16/