Join Marie Darrieussecq at the Stanford University Department of French and Italian for a lunch workshop moderated by Cécile Alduy, professor of French.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Marie Darrieussecq’s first book, Pig Tales, became an overnight sensation and bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies and translated into more than thirty languages—since then, she has gone on to publish twenty more, including Being Here Is Everything, a literary investigation into the life of the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, and the novels Men, The Baby, Our Life in the Forest, and, most recently, How to Make a Woman. The New Yorker described her as France’s “best young novelist,” and she is recognized as one of the leading voices of French contemporary literature. Her novel Men was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix in 2013.

Cécile Alduy is a professor of literature at Stanford University and an associate scholar at Cevipof, Sciences Po Paris. She is the author of La Langue de Zemmour (Seuil, 2022) and Marine Le Pen prise aux mots (Marine Le Pen Caught in Words, Seuil, 2015).