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Antoine Audouard
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Antoine Audouard was born in Paris in 1956.
Audouard spent six years as publishing director of Laffont-Fixot. His novel Farewell, My Only One was published in English in 2004, shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize, and translated into 14 languages. His forthcoming novel, A Bridge of Birds, set in Vietnam, will be published in September 2005. |
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Read Audouard on "The Way We Love Now," featured in Issue 7 of PEN America: A Journal for Writers & Readers. >>More
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Participating in the Following Events
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Sunday 9-10:30pm
Reading: Banned Voices
Thursday 7-9pm
The Way We Love Now
Passage of Eden (Translated from French)
"The
old man was standing cautiously behind the table on which he displayed
the treasures of the passage's bookshop: used English paperbacks, bound
photocopies, ancient and incomplete collections of newspapers. He might
have been seventy, maybe more. Above his balding head dangled a sign
that said "Au Singe Vert, passage de l'Eden." I opened books at random,
leafing through the pages without reading, careful not to tear the
brittle paper."
Click here to visit Words Without Borders for the complete text.
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