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The Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo continues its commitment to the promotion of Mediterranean authors and, in collaboration with the publishing house Destino and the Fundación José Manuel Lara, presents The foreign daughter, by Najat El Hachmi, a work currently under discussion in the Tres con libros book club.
In this novel-monologue, El Hachmi puts us in the shoes of a woman on uncertain ground: between two nationalities, between two languages, between reality and desire. A work originally written in Catalan that helps us to understand what it is to be ‘the other’.
She will talk about all this and her creative process at Tres Culturas with the writer and journalist Eva Díaz, in a meeting that is part of the activities to commemorate International Women's Day. After the talk between the authors, Najat El Hachmi herself will read an excerpt from her book to the musical accompaniment of Mar Gabarre's harp, Müsgo.
Najat El Hachmi. (Nador, Morocco, 1971).
Najat El Hachmi Buhhu was born in Morocco and has lived in Catalonia since the age of eight. She holds a degree in Arabic Philology from the University of Barcelona and is a regular contributor to the press and various radio stations.
The strangeness of feeling part of two places and her desire to bring together the two worlds to which she felt she belonged led her to write her first book. I am also Catalan (Columna, 2004). His first novel, The last patriarch (Planeta, 2008), received the 2008 Ramón Llull Prize, the Prix Ulysse and was a finalist for the Prix Méditerranée Étranger 2009. This work has been translated into numerous languages, including English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian and Arabic. His second novel, The body hunter, was published simultaneously in 2011 by Columna and Planeta in Catalan and Spanish respectively. His previous work was the edition and translation of the anthology Libertine tales from the Maghreb (Planeta, 2012).
Eva Díaz Pérez (Seville, 1971)
She is the author of the novels The Memory Club (Finalist of the Nadal Prize 2008), Adriatic (Malaga Novel Prize and Andalusia Critics' Prize), The sleepwalker of Verdun, Memory of ashes e Sons of Noon. His essays include Andalusia in exile, The dust on the road o Seville, a literary portrait. She works as a columnist and head of the Culture section in The World of Andalusia. He has won the Unicaja, Ciudad de Málaga, Universidad de Sevilla, Ciudad de Huelva and Francisco Valdés Journalistic Article Prizes. He also won the Seville Book Fair Prize in 2013 for his literary career.
Free admission after registration on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.es/e/entradas-najat-el-hachmi-en-conversacion-con-eva-diaz-22647112122
Book sale and book signing after the talk.
And you may also be interested:
- This book is the current reading of the book club Three with books.
- The Tres Culturas library has a lot of 30 copies of this work for collective lending.
- In our libraryspecialised you can find all the works of Najat El Hachmi published in English.
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