Author event: Patricia Duncker
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(C) Keith Morris Meet author Patricia Duncker at the library on Friday, March 31st.The library is hosting two events with Patricia Duncker, English author of six novels. 10-11 am – come to Coffee House for an informal talk. Mrs. Duncker will be speaking in English about her experiences as a writer. Questions and answers to follow. Free and open to the public. No need to reserve. 2:30 – 4:00 pm – Mrs. Duncker will take a smaller group (maximum 15) to further discussion about writing. Tea and cakes served. Please sign up by sending an email to info@ellia.org or calling the library. PATRICIA DUNCKER is the author of six novels, all published by Bloomsbury: Hallucinating Foucault (1996), winner of the McKitterick Prize and the Dillons First Fiction Award, James Miranda Barry (1999) and The Deadly Space Between (2002), Miss Webster and Chérif (2006), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2007, The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge, (2010) and Sophie and the Sibyl (2015), both shortlisted for the Green Carnation Award. She has also published two collections of short fiction, Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees (1997), shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and Seven Tales of Sex and Death (2003), all of which have been widely translated. Her critical work includes a collection of essays on writing, theory and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall (2002). She has written many critical essays and scholarly articles. From 2007-2015 she was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester. |
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Author event: Patricia Duncker
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(C) Keith Morris Meet author Patricia Duncker at the library on Friday, March 31st.The library is hosting two events with Patricia Duncker, English author of six novels. 10-11 am – come to Coffee House for an informal talk. Mrs. Duncker will be speaking in English about her experiences as a writer. Questions and answers to follow. Free and open to the public. No need to reserve. 2:30 – 4:00 pm – Mrs. Duncker will take a smaller group (maximum 15) to further discussion about writing. Tea and cakes served. Please sign up by sending an email to info@ellia.org or calling the library. PATRICIA DUNCKER is the author of six novels, all published by Bloomsbury: Hallucinating Foucault (1996), winner of the McKitterick Prize and the Dillons First Fiction Award, James Miranda Barry (1999) and The Deadly Space Between (2002), Miss Webster and Chérif (2006), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2007, The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge, (2010) and Sophie and the Sibyl (2015), both shortlisted for the Green Carnation Award. She has also published two collections of short fiction, Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees (1997), shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and Seven Tales of Sex and Death (2003), all of which have been widely translated. Her critical work includes a collection of essays on writing, theory and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall (2002). She has written many critical essays and scholarly articles. From 2007-2015 she was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester. |
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Invitation to the Annual Meeting
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Dear member of the library, Please note this invitation for the Annual General Meeting open to all current members of the library, Annual General Meeting Agenda: In order to vote during the General Meeting your membership must be current. If you would like to check the expiration date of your membership please contact us. If you are not able to be present at the meeting, please click here for a proxy to fill out that will allow your vote to be counted. I would like to emphasize that our non-profit/charity exists solely for its members and because of its members and that this meeting is the moment for each of you to actively participate in the democratic process of our institution. For more information about the governance of the library please consult the Rapport Moral du Président. Many thanks for your ongoing support and your participation, Marie-France Roland, Chairwoman of the Board ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Take your TOEIC test
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You can sign up to take your TOEIC test here in the library. To sign up please consult the ETS website. Dates for 2017 for the Listening and Reading version of the TOEIC are 28/03, 25/04, 09/05, 30/05 & 13/06. |
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Open house and BBB (big, big booksale) raffle & bakesale
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Reading Shakespeare
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Bookclub
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The March read for the bookclub is “Nora Webster” by Colm Toibin. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Colm Toibin’s Nora is a character as resonant as Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary and Nora Websteris a novel that illuminates our own lives in a way that is rare in literature. Its humanity and compassion forge an unforgettable reading experience. For any enquiries about joining the bookclub please send an email by clicking here. |
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Books and tea
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“Books and Tea” is a monthly meeting for bookworms and tea drinkers. Bring a book you’ve really enjoyed, talk about it and pass it on! The group meets from 2 to 3:30 at “Les Casse-Croûte de Suzy” 3 rue de l’Espine. No need to sign up, just come and enjoy! |
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Film Club presents “Esther Kahn”
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The next film club event will be a showing of “Esther Kahn” by Arnaud Desplechin. To say that Esther Kahn is the black sheep or the ugly duckling of her noisy family would create a false impression of cuteness. Her harried, good-humored mother (Frances Barber) remarks that Esther (played as a young girl by Philadelphia Deda and then by Summer Phoenix) is not a human child at all, but a monkey or a pig. But even those creatures have their adorable aspect, and there is nothing especially cuddly or lovable about Esther. Sullen, incommunicative and shut off from all emotions other than rage and frustration, she seems less like a daughter or a sister than a feral mascot, a wolf child taken in and raised in the busy domestic warmth of late-19th-century Jewish working-class London. Screening begins at 15:00 sharp. This activity is free of charge for all library members. Please reserve by signing up at the front desk in advance. A discussion in English will follow the film. |
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Theater in English…Word for Word!
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Aunt Penny (Margo Hall), Miss Agatha (Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe) and Bertha (Velina Brown) pay a visit. Photo by Julie Schuchard. WORD FOR WORD, the theater company from San Francisco which transforms short stories into great theater will be presenting ”All Aunt Hagar’s Children” by Edward P. Jones directed by Stephanie Hunt with Assistant Director, Margo Hall.Set in 1950s Washington, D.C., this Noir tale spotlights a young Korean War vet who sets out to solve a murder and becomes entangled in a web of family history. Along the way, he is unsettled by another death—a young woman whose last words haunt him and his investigation. Edward P. Jones evokes a neighborhood of vivid characters, telling a story about the strength of family and the choices that shape our lives.Edward Paul Jones was born in 1950 in Virginia. The only son of an illiterate hotel maid and kitchen worker, Jones grew up in his mother’s sphere because his father had drifted out of his life when he was a preschooler. His interest in literature was sparked early, yet it was some time before he realized that African Americans, like their white counterparts, were writing works of literary merit. For more than a decade Jones worked full time as a freelance columnist and proofreader for Tax Notes. It was tedious work and thus left room for his imagination to wander to other topics. Finally Jones let his imagination run free and started mentally plotting in intricate detail the story of Henry Townsend, a Virginia slave who buys his freedom and then becomes a slave owner himself. However, this novel, told in omniscient point of view and in a nonlinear form, is more than the tale of Townsend. Townsend is the pivotal character around which the stories of myriad other characters revolve. In 2004, The Known World won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Edward P. Jones has been an instructor of fiction writing at a range of universities. He lives in Washington, D.C. His second collection of short stories, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, was awarded “Favorite Fiction in 2006” by the Los Angeles Times. “Jones’ everyday tales …capture so beautifully the passion and fragility of ordinary life….Taken together they give us a portrait of black life in Washington, D.C….that compares well with James Joyce’s Irish in The Dubliners.” – San Francisco Chronicle.Shows are on Thursday, March 16th at 8 pm & Friday, March 17th at either 2 or 8 pm at the “Quart’Ney” 5/9 rue E.E. Duboys in Angers.Limited seating available so we highly recommend that you reserve early. To reserve, simply send an email by clicking here or give the library a call at 02.41.24.97.07. Donations will be accepted at the door.Word for Word’s mission is to “tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction”. Made possible by the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation. |
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