{"id":2636,"date":"2014-05-08T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T10:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:41:35","slug":"kent-in-paris-to-host-belgian-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/05\/08\/kent-in-paris-to-host-belgian-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent in Paris to host Belgian author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major Francophone author Am\u00e9lie 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/paris\/\">University of Kent, Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Am\u00e9lie Nothomb is a prolific Belgian writer. Her first novel, <i>Hygi\u00e8ne de l&#8217;assassin<\/i>, (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).<\/p>\n<p>The conference builds upon Nothomb\u2019s ever-growing body of work, to investigate the elements of identity, memory and place either alone or conjugated together. \u00a0For example, what are the spaces and the topoi \u2013 recurrent or unique \u2013 of the Nothombian literary universe? \u00a0How is the relationship between character and time, or character and place written?\u00a0 What is the nature of identity \u2013 past or present \u2013 in the face of abandoned places or those found again?<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the conference, please see the Paris event page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/paris\/events\/2014-05-16\/\">www.kent.ac.uk\/paris\/events\/2014-05-16\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Francophone author Am\u00e9lie Nothomb will be participating in a Kent conference in Paris next week, on 15-16 May 2014, co-organised by Dr Ana de &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/05\/08\/kent-in-paris-to-host-belgian-author\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36176,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}