Kafka scholar Daniel Medin hosts a lively evening of readings and discussion commemorating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death. Joined by Women’s Prize winner Naomi Alderman, and the recently announced winner of the 2024 Dublin Literary Award Mircea Cărtărescu, he’ll explore the life, death, and enduring legacy of the mind behind classics such as The Metamorphosis and The Trial.

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. She is alsp 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.

Mircea Cărtărescu is a writer, professor, and journalist who has published more than twenty-five books. His work has received the Formentor Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Austrian State Prize for Literature, and the Vilenica Prize, among many others. His work has been translated in twenty-three languages. His novel Blinding was published by Archipelago in Sean Cotter’s English translation and his novel Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter, was announced as the winner of the 2024 Dublin Literary Award on Thursday 23 May, 2024.

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.