Conversations with writers
J. Carlos Teixeira is the author of the collection of poems titled Que coisa é um alguidar? (Editora Exclamação). As an editor, he collaborated with the platforms A Bacana e Enfermaria 6, with his texts being published in several anthologies in Portugal (Enfermaria 6, TLÖN, Terceira Margem, Subversa, 110 Anos – 110 Poetas), Brazil (Ruído Manifesto) and Mexico (Lluvia oblicua – Poesía portuguesa actual). He is a professor of German Literature at the University of Porto. He holds a Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Interartistic Studies from the University of Porto and Freie Universität Berlin, with a thesis titled "Poetics of Tension in the Lyric Poetry of Minnesang: Edition, Translation, and Study." He is an integrated member of the Transdisciplinary Research Center Culture, Space, and Memory (CITCEM) and the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS). His academic interests include theories of lyric poetry, medieval poetry, textual criticism, and translation.
- March 26, 2025, 12 p.m. (Paris time), online - Stories in the Making with Emanuel Melo (moderated by Zuzanna Sanches from the University of Lisbon)
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/unwrittenconversationsemelo
Emanuel Melo is a Torontonian Azorean writer who immigrated to Canada at age nine. His writing has been published in anthologies of Luso-Canadian writers, in Cleaver Magazine, Gávea-Brown, and Filamentos. Some of his most recent publications include “A Journey of Promise” in Filamentos, Arts and Letters in the Azorean Diaspora (2023) and “Tia Catarina" in Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies (2021). The conversation will last approximately 45 minutes to one hour followed by about 30 minutes of questions from the audience.
- Ian McEwan, 27e édition du festival Ecrans Britanniques, 15 March 2024, Nîmes.
- Conversations with Ben Okri, University of Mississippi Press, 2024. 240p.
- Ben Okri, "A Conversation", 22 November 2022, Marylebone Theatre, London.
Edited version forthcoming in Conversations with Ben Okri, ed. Vanessa Guignery (Jackson,
University of Mississippi Press, 2024).
- Aman Sethi, "A Free Man - A Conversation", 29 April 2022, London Bridge, London.
- Mridula Koshy, "Literature and the Indian Working Class", 20 March 2022 - Community
Library Project, Khirki Extension, Delhi, India.Edited version published in The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 59.2 (2023): 242-254.
(postprint)
- Ian McEwan, "Conversations", 21-22 May 2018 - Villa Gillet and ENS de Lyon.
21 May 2018, 19h-20h30 Interview with Ian McEwan for the opening of the Assises Internationales du Roman Théâtre des Subsistances à Lyon
Audio file (the interview starts after 13 minutes)
Edited version published by Etudes britanniques contemporaines 55 (2018).
22 May 2018, 10h30-12h Interview with Ian McEwan on Atonement École Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Video of the event on "La Clé des langues"Edited version published by Études Anglaises 71.3 (July/Sept. 2018): 332-340.
- Salman Rushdie, "A Conversation", 30 May 2017. Villa Gillet, Lyon.
Video of the event on "La clé des langues".
Edited version published in The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 54.2 (2018): 268-283.
Copyright: Justine Chapelon- Caryl Phillips,« Crossing the River: A Conversation with Caryl Phillips », 27 September
2016. ENS de Lyon / Yale University.Edited version published in Etudes Anglaises 69.3 (2016): 321-333.
- Jonathan Coe. "Humour, Comedy and Satire", 15 October 2015. ENS de Lyon.
Edited version published in Etudes britanniques contemporaines 51 (2016).- Jonathan Coe, "Rencontre avec Jonathan Coe", 5 June 2015, Pompidou Center, Paris,
Festival "Air de jeu". Video of the event.
- Jonathan Coe and Pascal Arnaud, "Rencontre autour de B.S. Johnson", 4 June 2015, Pompidou Center, Paris, Festival "Air de jeu". Video of the event.
- Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds and Poetry, 21 May 2014, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon.
- Jonathan Coe, Expo 58, 13 February 2014, Institution des Chartreux, Lyon.
- Zulfikar Ghose, "B.S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose: Friends and Writers", 23 April 2013,
University of Texas in Austin. (Publication in The B.S. Johnson Journal)
- Ben Okri, "The Famished Road", 18 October 2012, ENS de Lyon.
- Jonathan Coe, "Celebrating B.S. Johnson", 12 October 2012, Librairie Ptyx, Bruxelles.
- Jonathan Coe, "A tribute to B.S. Johnson", 3 June 2012, Comédie du livre in Montpellier.
- David Lodge, "A Man of Parts", 2 June 2012, Comédie du livre in Montpellier.
- Jonathan Coe, B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, 20 November 2010, Festival
des littératures européennes, Cognac (France)
- Abha Dawesar, "A Conversation", 7 October 2010, ENS de Lyon. Published in Hybridity: Forms and Figures in Literature and the Visual Arts. Newcastle-upon-Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, p.260-278.
- Jonathan Coe, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, 1 June 2010, London.
- Jonathan Coe, B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, 8-11 February 2010, Strasbourg,
Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse.
- Graham Swift, Making an Elephant: Writing from Within, 30 April 2009, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Anita Desai, In Custody, 18 March 2009, ENS-Ulm, Paris.
- Colum McCann, Zoli, 5 May 2008, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Jonathan Coe, The Rains Before it Falls, 17 April 2008, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Will Self, The Book of Dave, 15 December 2007, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Marathon Bovary - Lecture intégrale du roman Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert,
15 et 16 septembre 2007, Rouen.
1 - Présentation de Charles
Lecteurs:
1 Julian Barnes
2 Vanessa Guignery
3 Anne Riegert
- Michael Collins, The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton, 23 March 2007, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Graham Swift, Tomorrow, 17 March 2007, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Breyten Breytenbach, Dog Heart, 22 May 2006, Sorbonne, Paris.
- David Lodge, "A Mixed Blessing: A Writer's View of Literary Prizes", 29 April 2006, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, 6 March 2006, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Sean O’Reilly, The Swing of Things, 12 January 2006, Sorbonne, Paris.
- André Brink, "The itinerary of a book in the English language", 18 March 2005, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Alka Saraogi, Kalikatha via Bypasss and Over to You, Kadambari, 10 March 2005, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Hanif Kureishi. My Ear at His Heartand When the Night Begins, 26 January 2005, Sorbonne, Paris.
- David Lodge. Author, Author, 11 January 2005, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Jennifer Johnston. The Gingerbread Woman and This is not a Novel, 19 November 2004, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Jane Rogers. New Writing 11, 22
October 2004, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Matthew Kneale, English Passengers, 19 March 2004, Sorbonne, Paris.
- John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun, 10 September 2003, Paris.
- Dennis Lehane, ShutterIsland, 4 September 2003, Paris.
- Hanif Kureishi, The Body and Dreaming and Scheming, 28 April 2003, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney, 25 February 2003, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 4 December 2002, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot, 14 November 2001, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth, 11 May 2001, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Tim Parks, "Writing and translating", 13 October 2000, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 9 December 1999, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, 4 February 1999, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 17 November 1998, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia, 19 January 1998, Sorbonne, Paris.
