BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Asia/Kolkata X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT UID:354@afdelhi.org DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20260113T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20260113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260113T180308Z URL:https://afdelhi.org/events/writing-at-the-edge-of-the-real-meet-french -writers-marie-darrieussecq-and-neige-sinno/ SUMMARY:Writing at the Edge of the Real | Meet French writers Marie Darrieu ssecq and Neige Sinno DESCRIPTION:Writing at the Edge of the Real\nMarie Darrieussecq and Neige S inno in conversation with Amrita Tripathi\n13th January | 7pm | Alliance F rançaise de Delhi\n\n\n\nHow can literature engage with a reality that is difficult or sometimes impossible to say? The conversation could explore how women's intimate experience\, violence\, trauma\, memory and silencing are transformed into literary form\; how each writer negotiates responsib ility\, freedom and invention when writing at the edge of the sayable.\n\n ABOUT THE AUTHORS\n\nNeige Sinno is a multiple award-winning French writer whose work explores memory\, trauma\, and literary form\; her acclaimed 2 023 book Sad Tiger (Triste Tigre) has received major international prizes and has been widely recognised for its courageous and intellectually rigo rous examination of childhood sexual abuse. It was elected Goncourt Choice of India by the Indian jury of students and just got published in its Ind ian English edition.\n\nMarie Darrieussecq is one of the leading voices i n contemporary French literature. Her firstnovel\, Pig Tales (Truisme) wa s a finalist for France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1996 and became a n international bestseller. In 2013\, she received the Prix Medicis for he r novel Men: A Novel of Cinema and Desire (Il faut beaucoup aimer les homm es). Her latest translated book\, Sleepless (Pas Dormir\, 2023)\, is a me ditative reflection on her personal experience of living with insomnia for twenty years.\n\nAmrita Tripathi is an author\, podcaster and award-winni ng former journalist\, with over 20 years of experience in the Media and T ech. She’s the founder of the new interdisciplinary thought leadership s tudio Say Again Press\, and the founder of The Health Collective\, a pione ering platform that focuses on storytelling and mental health with an Indi a lens. She has authored 3 novels\, most recently The Other Sister\, and h as co-authored 4 works of non-fiction.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://afdelhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/M arie-Darrieussecq-Neige-Sinno-event-13-01-2026.png CATEGORIES:Events,Talk / Discussion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kolkata X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20250113T190000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0530 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 TZNAME:IST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR