Tickets: General Admission - £30 / Zoom Admission - £15 / Free for Hearth Members

"Lauren Elkin is one of our most valuable critical thinkers - the Susan Sontag of her generation." - Deborah Levy

The Inseparables, the lost work of Simone de Beauvoir, recently became available to the public with a first class translation from the brilliant Lauren Elkin. Lauren is also the author of her own book, No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus through which she writes a love letter to Paris and meditates on how it has changed over the last two decades.

Lauren will join us to talk about the process of translating such an important work, the continued significance of feminist writers like Simone de Beauvoir and how her love of French culture translates onto the page.

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About Lauren

Lauren Elkin is a writer and translator. Her writing on books, art, and culture have appeared in a variety of publications including the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper’s, Le Monde, the Times Literary Supplement, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, and her essay "This is the Beginning of Writing," published in the Sewanee Review, was awarded notable distinction in the Best American Essays of 2019, edited by Rebecca Solnit.

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