Dear all,

You are warmly invited to a reading by Jean Portante on Wednesday, 4 December at 5pm in the Humanities Research Institute. Wine served afterwards.

Jean Portante will read a selection of his work in French and Dr Zoë Skoulding (Bangor) will provide translations into English. Dr Skoulding translated a collection of Mr Portante’s recent poems for the publication In Reality: 

Jean Portante, son of Italian immigrants to Luxembourg, is indisputably one of the leading Luxembourgish authors of our time. In 1994 he was awarded the Prix Servais, following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Mrs. Haroy (first published in 1993, later named Mrs. Haroy, ou, La mémoire de la baleine. Chronique d'une immigration in a re-edited version published in 1997). Mr Portante was awarded the Prix Batty Weber (Prix national de littérature) in 2011 for his overall contributions to Luxembourgish literature. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (Luxembourg) and the Centre for Luxembourg Studies (Sheffield).

All welcome!

best wishes,

Kristine 

Reader in Luxembourg Studies & Multilingualism