A Conversation with Author Ananda Devi, Winner of the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
October 17
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Chambers Center, Ballantine Room
Audience: Alumni, Current Student, Faculty, Families, Neighbor or Friend, Prospective Student, Staff
A Conversation with Author Ananda Devi
Winner of the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2024 | 4-6 PM
The University of Denver welcomes author Ananda Devi for a special event. The 28th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature, which recognizes outstanding literary merit in literature worldwide, Devi will read from her work and discuss the writing process.
Born in Mauritius, Ananda Devi has become one of the major literary voices of the Francophone world with over twenty-five books, including novels, collections of poetry, short stories, and essays. She has been translated into over a dozen languages and has received numerous literary prizes and decorations from Mauritius and also from France, with the title of Officier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2014 she received a major award from the Académie Française. The University of Silesia, Poland, conferred upon her a doctorate honoris causa. The Guardian recommended her novel Eve Out of Her Ruins, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Les Fugitives / Deep Vellum, 2016), among the hundred best contemporary novels in translation by women writers. [World Literature Today]
