Elif Shafak in Conversation
November 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
We are delighted to welcome Elif Shafak to Nottingham to celebrate the release of In One Brief Moment All Eternity. Join us at the beautiful St Mary’s Church in the Lace Market to hear all about Elif’s new book.
Internationally-acclaimed novelist Elif Shafak returns to celebrate her extraordinary new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th-century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, this luminous and deeply moving story explores creativity and resistance in times of political upheaval and war. Reimagining the life of Gustave Flaubert through the real and fictional women who shaped him, Elif Shafak builds a fascinating bridge between Western prose and Eastern poetry and offers a powerful meditation on literature’s enduring role in a fractured world.
Elif will talk about her new book before an audience Q&A.
The Signed Book & Ticket bundle includes a pre-signed copy of One Brief Moment All Eternity by Elif Shafak, for collection on the evening.
Elif Shafak is a multi award-winning British-Turkish novelist and storyteller. She has published 21 books, translated into almost 60 languages, including 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World and The Island of Missing Trees. A President of the Royal Society of Literature, she has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is a strong advocate for women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of expression.
Dr Timothy (Tim) Rideout is an arts interviewer, academic and critic, known for engaging authors and audiences at literary festivals and events, where he regularly chairs panels and conducts in-depth interviews with writers. Tim’s academic work is focussed on the literary Gothic and explores how modern fiction engages with cultural anxieties and social precarity, themes central to his book Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction, published by the University of Wales Press as part of their Gothic Literary Studies series.
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