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The Poetry of Becoming: Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Oluwaseun Olayiwola

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In this event at the American Library in Paris, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, author of Joy Is My Middle Name (Norton, 2025), and Oluwaseun Olayiwola, author of Strange Beach (Soft Skull Press, 2025), speak about their debut collections, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the U.K., in a conversation with writer and researcher Emma Gomis. Debevec-McKenney is the winner of the 2026 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.

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Poetry
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Sasha Debevec-McKenney
Joy Is My Middle Name
Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Strange Beach
Emma Gomis
American Library in Paris
Fitzcarraldo Editions
2025
International Dylan Thomas Prize

Jhumpa Lahiri on Translating Literature

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“Translate literature and it will teach you how to write.” In this American Library in Paris event, Jhumpa Lahiri reads from her essay collection Translating Myself and Others (Princeton University Press, 2022) and talks about her latest book, Bone Into Stone (Sylph Editions, 2024), which details her experiences translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the Latin in partnership with the classicist Yelena Baraz.

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Creative Nonfiction
Translation
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Cahiers Series
Bone Into Stone
Sylph Editions
Translating Myself and Others
Princeton University Press
American Library in Paris
2025

Adrienne Raphel and Megan Fernandes at the American Library in Paris

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Watch Megan Fernandes, author of I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House, 2023), and Adrienne Raphel, author of Our Dark Academia (Rescue Press, 2022), read from their work and discuss their poetry collections in this reading held at the American Library in Paris. 

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Poetry
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American Library in Paris
Megan Fernandes
I Do Everything I’m Told
Adrienne Raphel
Our Dark Academia
Tin House
Rescue Press
2023
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