18 October 2024 | TNH Event: Bilingual Conversation and Readings | From Réunion to Ireland: Gaëlle Bélem in Translation
Date: Friday, 18th October 2024 
Time: 12pm
Venue: Humanities Institute (H204 / top floor)
- The event is free but to attend, please (opens in a new window)register HERE
Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door (published October 2024) is a picaresque, brutal, and mordantly funny tale of one little girl’s attempt to escape her sadistic parents’ reign of terror in Réunion in the 1980s. It is the first of two novels by the Réunionese author to be published by the Sligo-based Bullaun Press, the first Irish publisher to take literature in translation as its focus.
In this event, Bélem will appear in conversation with her translators Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert as well as publisher Bridget Farrell (Bullaun Press) to discuss the novel itself (originally published by Gallimard as Un monstre est là, derrière la porte, in 2020), the story of its translation, and how it came to be published in Ireland.
The conversation will be chaired by (opens in a new window)Prof. Mary Gallagher (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics) and Dr. Tim Groenland (School of English, Drama and Film & HI resident scholar).
Lunch and tea/coffee will be provided after the event.