Interpreter: Carine Kennedy<\/p>\n
Where: BP Room, British Museum, London, UK<\/p>\n
Fa\u00efza Gu\u00e8ne is a French writer and film director, born to Algerian parents in 1985. She wrote her first novel, Kiffe Kiffe demain (published in English as Just Like Tomorrow), when she was 17 years old. It was a huge success in France, and has been translated throughout the world. Gu\u00e8ne\u2019s work breaks out of the Francophone ghetto to offer a remarkable dialogue between the disenfranchised banlieues and \u2018metropolitan\u2019 France. Rooted in disarming observational comedy, her novels give voice both to the Arabic-influenced backslang (verlan) spoken by young immigrants and the \u2018straight\u2019 French of her education, in a creative mix skilfully rendered by her translator and co-speaker, Sarah Ardizzone. Dubbed \u2018the Sagan of the suburbs\u2019, Gu\u00e8ne develops her political concerns, comic flair and linguistic inventiveness in her second book Dreams from the Endz (Vintage).<\/p>\n
Fa\u00efza Gu\u00e8ne was born in France in 1985 to Algerian parents. Her first novel, Just Like Tomorrow, was a huge success in France, selling over 360,000 copies. She lives in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris.<\/p>\n
Sarah Ardizzone was highly praised for her translation of Just Like Tomorrow, winning the Scott-Moncrieff Prize 2007. She specialises in translating urban slang, and has spent time living in Marseille to pick up \u2018Beur\u2019 backslang.<\/p>\n
Part of the London Review Bookshop\u2019s World Literature Weekend<\/p>\n
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