10/22 Online Class - Writing with Annie Ernaux - $25/$20 For Members
Date: 10/22/23
Time: 8 am - 10 am PT
Cost: $25/$20 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
On October 2022, the Swedish Academy awarded French writer Annie Ernaux, to the surprise of many, the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." Perhaps a surprise to Ernaux as well, since in her own words, "I ticked all wrong boxes and I never tried to please." Our starting point in this workshop will be passages from her autobiographical slim novels and book-length essays, which explore themes ranging from family life (A Man's Place, A Woman's Story, and Shame), to love and lust (Getting Lost) and the lived experience of illegal abortion (Happening). We will also explore writing prompts based on her novels and workshop them together.
Your Instructor: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer currently based between Paris and São Paulo. His first novel, to be published in 2024, is an autobiography of his illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, his mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. By weaving in extensive archival research and interviews, the novel narrates their journey to Minas Gerais—where she was born—and Bahia—the Blackest state in Brazil, where she was enslaved on a farm for three years—to investigate why the family that enslaved her has never been brought to justice. It also narrates her grandmother’s journey to search for her missing daughter. In November 2022, he'll offer a workshop based on his novel at the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Course.
Date: 10/22/23
Time: 8 am - 10 am PT
Cost: $25/$20 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
On October 2022, the Swedish Academy awarded French writer Annie Ernaux, to the surprise of many, the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." Perhaps a surprise to Ernaux as well, since in her own words, "I ticked all wrong boxes and I never tried to please." Our starting point in this workshop will be passages from her autobiographical slim novels and book-length essays, which explore themes ranging from family life (A Man's Place, A Woman's Story, and Shame), to love and lust (Getting Lost) and the lived experience of illegal abortion (Happening). We will also explore writing prompts based on her novels and workshop them together.
Your Instructor: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer currently based between Paris and São Paulo. His first novel, to be published in 2024, is an autobiography of his illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, his mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. By weaving in extensive archival research and interviews, the novel narrates their journey to Minas Gerais—where she was born—and Bahia—the Blackest state in Brazil, where she was enslaved on a farm for three years—to investigate why the family that enslaved her has never been brought to justice. It also narrates her grandmother’s journey to search for her missing daughter. In November 2022, he'll offer a workshop based on his novel at the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Course.
Date: 10/22/23
Time: 8 am - 10 am PT
Cost: $25/$20 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
On October 2022, the Swedish Academy awarded French writer Annie Ernaux, to the surprise of many, the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." Perhaps a surprise to Ernaux as well, since in her own words, "I ticked all wrong boxes and I never tried to please." Our starting point in this workshop will be passages from her autobiographical slim novels and book-length essays, which explore themes ranging from family life (A Man's Place, A Woman's Story, and Shame), to love and lust (Getting Lost) and the lived experience of illegal abortion (Happening). We will also explore writing prompts based on her novels and workshop them together.
Your Instructor: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer currently based between Paris and São Paulo. His first novel, to be published in 2024, is an autobiography of his illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, his mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. By weaving in extensive archival research and interviews, the novel narrates their journey to Minas Gerais—where she was born—and Bahia—the Blackest state in Brazil, where she was enslaved on a farm for three years—to investigate why the family that enslaved her has never been brought to justice. It also narrates her grandmother’s journey to search for her missing daughter. In November 2022, he'll offer a workshop based on his novel at the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Course.