AN EVENING WITH LAUREN ELKIN

The Program in Creative Writing is delighted to welcome Lauren Elkin back to AUP for an evening devoted to her work. Lauren will read from new and selected projects, and an audience Q&A will follow, as well as a reception with wine and cheese. Conversation will be moderated by Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing, Amanda Dennis.

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Lauren Elkin is a French and American writer, critic, and translator. She is author of several acclaimed books, including Scaffolding, which was the runner-up for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize, and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award as well as the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and Flâneuse, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her criticism has appeared in many publications including the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, the Yale Review, Le Monde, and Frieze. Her next book, Vocal Break: On Women, Music, and Power, will be published in 2026 by Chatto & Windus in the UK and FSG in New York.

As a translator Lauren has published work by Simone de Beauvoir, Constance Debré, Lola Lafon, Lauren Bastide, Colombe Schneck, and Michelle Perrot; her co-translation of Claude Arnaud's biography of Jean Cocteau won the 2017 French-American Foundation Award for Non-Fiction, and was longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bogrand Weld award for biography that year.

Lauren has lectured across disciplines in universities across North America and Europe, most recently at the art school of the University of Alberta, the architecture school at ETH Zurich, and the creative writing programs at the Universities of Copenhagen and East Anglia. She is delighted to return to AUP, where she taught literature and creative writing for several years.