Kafka scholar Daniel Medin hosts a lively evening of readings and discussion commemorating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death. Joined by Naomi Alderman and other special guests, he’ll explore the life, death, and enduring legacy of the mind behind classics such as The Metamorphosis and The Trial.

Women’s Prize-winning author Naomi Alderman is a contributor to A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafakaesque Stories which features ten specially commissioned stories that speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

Daniel Medin is professor of comparative literature at the American University of Paris, where he teaches courses on East Central European literature and culture; the work and global reception of Franz Kafka; contemporary international fiction; touchstones of world literature; and autobiographical writing. He is a director of the Center for Writers and Translators and one of the editors of its Cahiers Series.

Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was recently adapted as a series for Amazon Prime. As a novelist, Alderman has been mentored by Margaret Atwood; she is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages.