Join us at Community Bookstore for a discussion of Marie Darrieussecq’s forthcoming novels How to Make a Woman and Our Life in the Forest with Darrieussecq’s longtime translator and Australian publisher Penny Hueston and Samuel Rutter.

Please note that an RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. We can accommodate approximately 50 seated and 80 total. If you require a seat, please plan to arrive early.

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Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Salasc and Patrick Modiano and eight books by Marie Darrieussecq. She has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize, and she was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.

Samuel Rutter is a writer and translator from Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is the editor-in-chief of Kismet Magazine.