Writers in Conversation: An Evening with Julia Malye

Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation with the writer, Julia Malye. We will discuss liminal spaces and translation, writing across French and English, archival research and fiction, and her most recent, acclaimed novel, Pelican Girls/La Louisiane, which tells the story of the journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory. A light reception of wine and cheese will accompany the event.

Julia Malye is the author of four novels published in France and in the United States and works as a translator for Les Belles Lettres. She has been teaching creative writing for ten years, both in France and in the U.S., at Sciences Po, La Sorbonne and Oregon State University. This spring, she teaches a module on Parisian train stations to AUP's MFA students. She wrote her latest novel, Pelican Girls / La Louisiane, both in French and in English; Pelican Girls has been translated into twenty-five languages. She is currently working on her fifth novel, which will be published in France by éditions Stock in 2027.

*Guests external to the university are warmly invited and must register via the form below.