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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