Festival America comes to Brussels in September

Categories: Conference
Date: 19/09/2018
Time: 20 h 15 - 22 h 45
Location: Flagey
Links: iCal - Google Calendar

Created by Francis Geffard, the Festival America invites every two years the most important North American writers for a major event in Vincennes, near Paris. As in 2016, the festival will run a prequel in Brussels with two exceptional American authors: Richard Powers and Colson Whitehead.

The event will take place on September 19th in the Studio 4 of Flagey at 20:15.

Colson Whitehead

Born in New York in 1969, Colson Whitehead made a stellar appearance on the international stage in 2016 with his sixth novel, The Underground Railway, which won both, the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in the same year. Something few authors had achieved before him.

Richard Powers

Richard Powers (b. 1957) has been a familiar name to amateurs of contemporary American prose for a long time already. Since The Goldbug Variations (1993), completed when Powers was still living in the Netherlands, he has been known as a master of the encyclopedic novel. Science, technology and virtual reality but also love, music and American history are the main themes of his oeuvre. With The Overstory, a new, ambitious novel that connects the lives of his characters with those of trees