WU041: Bilingual Book Group Special Event / Rencontre Litteraire Bilingue de WICE

WICE Bilingual Book Group Special Event

4 June 2021

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (UTC+02:00)

For France’s annual “Semaine de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes” (SALC), Jamaican writer and WICE member Alecia McKenzie will join translator and teacher Frédérique Brisepierre for a discussion of literary translation, moderated by Catherine Field, coordinator of the WICE Bilingual Book Group.

Frédérique Brisepierre has translated Ms. McKenzie’s most recent novel A MILLION AUNTIES, which is set in the Caribbean, the United States and France.

The New York Times review of the novel can be read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/books/review/a-million-aunties-alecia-mckenzie.html)