Passa Porta lecture 2018: David Szalay
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Do writers think about their readers when they write? Do writers at all need to take readers into account? If so, to what extent? In the opening lecture of the new Passa Porta season, up-and-coming British-Hungarian writer David Szalay shares his reflections on the relation between writer and reader during the creative process.
Passa Porta Lecture 2018
For many years already the Passa Porta Lecture has been an unmissable event at the start of the new cultural season. A leading author shares his/her insights into the place of literature in today’s world.
This year the honour falls to David Szalay. In his short lecture he will shed light on the relation between writer and reader during the writing process. Afterwards, he will be interviewed by Belgian journalist Nicky Aerts and answer questions from the audience.
With his critical attitude, fresh voice and ingenious, original formal idiom, David Szalay is the right man at the right place for a reflection on authorship today.
In the opening lecture, David Szalay reflects on the question as to whether writers need to take their readers into account. The text of Szalay’s lecture will be available on the evening itself in English, French and Dutch. After that it will be available on our website in the same languages.
Writer-in-residence David Szalay
British-Hungarian novelist David Szalay is in residence at Passa Porta in 2018–19. The son of a Hungarian father and a Canadian mother, Szalay grew up in the UK where he studied at Oxford. After a brief stay in Brussels, he now lives in Budapest. Szalay is therefore both a European through and through and, and this is a bit more common, a man. These two facets of his identity enabled him to write All That Man Is, the book with which he broke through.
In All That Man Is, which lies somewhere between a novel and a story collection, Szalay draws a razor-sharp portrait of the European male today. The book earned him the Gordon Burn Prize and a nomination for the Man Booker Prize. Szalay has also featured in the ‘Top 20 British Writers under 40’ list of The Telegraph.
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