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SUMMARY:A meeting with Cécile Wajsbrot and Josephine Rijnaarts
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DESCRIPTION:On Friday 6 November\, join award-winning French writer Cécile 
	Wajsbrot for a Q&A\nabout her work\, including her latest novel\, Nevermor
	e. This book was translated\ninto Dutch by Josphine Rijnaarts\, who will b
	e joining the conversation. Wajsbrot\nand Rijnaarts will be awarded the Eu
	ropese Literatuurprijs 2026 (European\nLiterature Prize) for this “profoun
	dly European\, worldly novel\, in a time\, our\ntimes\, in which destructi
	on\, mourning and devastation\, are constantly in the\nnews and yet we per
	sist in repeating history – Nevermore\, never again?”\n\nNevermore is a st
	ory of a woman translating the famous middle part ‘Time Passes’\nfrom Virg
	inia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927) into French – while on a\ntranslatio
	n fellowship in Dresden\, she thinks about that city’s history\, the\ndest
	ruction of the First World War so central to Woolf’s novel\, and other pla
	ces\nof loss and memory.\n\nTogether with translator Josephine Rijnaarts\,
	 Cécile Wajsbrot will be in\nAmsterdam before they accept their award\, on
	 Saturday\, in The Hague. Make use of\nthis exclusive opportunity to meet 
	her and engage in a Q&A about her novel\, its\nthemes\, and the art of tra
	nslation. Space is limited\, so please register in\nadvance.\n\nThe conver
	sation will be moderated by Jesse van Amelsvoort\, writer\, critic\, and\n
	lecturer in modern European literature at the University of Amsterdam.
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/a-meeting-with-cecile-wajsbrot-and-jose
	phine-rijnaarts
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LOCATION:SPUI25 - Spui 25-27\, 1012 WX Amsterdam
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>On Friday 6 November, join award-winning Fr
	ench writer Cécile Wajsbrot for a Q&amp;A about her work, including her la
	test novel, <em>Nevermore</em>. This book was translated into Dutch by Jos
	phine Rijnaarts, who will be joining the conversation. Wajsbrot and Rijnaa
	rts will be awarded the Europese Literatuurprijs 2026 (European Literature
	 Prize) for this “profoundly European, worldly novel, in a time, our times
	, in which destruction, mourning and devastation, are constantly in the ne
	ws and yet we persist in repeating history – Nevermore, never again?”</p> 
	        <p><em>Nevermore</em> is a story of a woman translating the famous
	 middle part ‘Time Passes’ from Virginia Woolf’s <em>To the Lighthouse</em
	> (1927) into French – while on a translation fellowship in Dresden, she t
	hinks about that city’s history, the destruction of the First World War so
	 central to Woolf’s novel, and other places of loss and memory.</p> <p>Tog
	ether with translator Josephine Rijnaarts, Cécile Wajsbrot will be in Amst
	erdam before they accept their award, on Saturday, in The Hague. Make use 
	of this exclusive opportunity to meet her and engage in a Q&amp;A about he
	r novel, its themes, and the art of translation. Space is limited, so plea
	se register in advance.</p> <p>The conversation will be moderated by Jesse
	 van Amelsvoort, writer, critic, and lecturer in modern European literatur
	e at the University of Amsterdam.</p>
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