Italian-Algerian Writer Amara Lakhous’ Visit: Video, Article, Interview

The April visit on campus by acclaimed Algerian-Italian writer Amara Lakhous has produced a video, an article and an interview about studying Italian (see below). Lakhous, whose award-winning books on the clashes and encounters prompted by global migration have been published in several languages, spoke to over 200 people in the course of three talks about his experiences with cultural and literary translation in his novels, including his 2006 bestseller Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio. For the April 13 conversation titled Migrating Words, he was joined by Michael Reynolds (Europa Editions) and Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker).

Watch the video by Matteo Minasi of Cinematic Underground
Read the article on La Voce di New York by Marta Russoniello and Joseph Glinbizzi
Read the interview with Amara Lakhous by Teresa Fiore published on La Voce di New York (see English version)
See the photos from both the public lecture and the in-class talks, and read more information about the events

• Spearheaded and sponsored by The Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies (Department of Spanish and Italian) at Montclair State University
• Presented in collaboration with the French and Arabic Programs of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the AMICI Italian Club