{"id":59512,"date":"2022-10-06T20:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/olivier-guez-tour\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:42:50","slug":"olivier-guez-tour","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/olivier-guez-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Prix Renaudot Winner Olivier Guez &#8211; Author Talk and Book Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Library and Villa Albertine\u00a0are\u00a0honored\u00a0to welcome bestselling author Olivier Guez\u00a0for the American release of his book,\u00a0<em>The disappearance of Josef Mengele<\/em>, awarded Prix Renaudot in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The author will join join the French Library for a talk about his chilling novel and future projects.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>About Olivier Guez<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Oliver Guez\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>is the author of novels and essays translated into more than thirty languages notably\u00a0<em>American spleen<\/em>,\u00a0<em>L\u2019Impossible retour (A History of Jews in Germany since 1945)<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Praise of Dodging<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Revolutions of Jacques Koskas.\u00a0<\/em>His<em>\u00a0The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,\u00a0<\/em>released this year by Verso, was the recipient of the 2017 prix Renaudot. It has been translated worldwide and is currently being adapted for the screen. Guez is also the co-author of the screenplay\u00a0<em>der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Fritz Bauer, a German Hero<\/em>), for which he won the 2016 German Oscar for best script. As a journalist, he has contributed to<em>\u00a0Le Monde, Point, the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>.\u00a0He has lived in England, Nicaragua, Brussels, Berlin, and Paris, and currently lives in Rome.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>About\u00a0<em>The Disappearance of Josef Mengele<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>An extraordinary novel about one of history\u2019s most reviled figures For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world\u2019s journalists. In this rigorously researched factual novel\u2014drawn almost entirely from historical documents\u2014Olivier Guez traces Mengele\u2019s footsteps through these years of flight. This chilling novel situates the reader in a literary manhunt on the trail of one of the most elusive and evil figures of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright: Claude Truong-Ngoc<\/p>\n<p>\nCome ready with your questions as our author talk will be followed by a Q&amp;A session, with a book signing and a glass of wine!<\/p>\n<p><em>Advance RSVP strongly recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frenchlibrary.org\/events\/an-evening-with-prix-renaudot-winner-olivier-guez\/\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59434,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213,233],"app_city_tax":[214],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-59512","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_discipline-social-sciences-and-humanities","app_city_tax-bos","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An Evening with Prix Renaudot Winner Olivier Guez - Author Talk and Book Signing - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/olivier-guez-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Evening with Prix Renaudot Winner Olivier Guez - Author Talk and Book Signing - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The French Library and Villa Albertine\u00a0are\u00a0honored\u00a0to welcome bestselling author Olivier Guez\u00a0for the American release of his book,\u00a0The disappearance of Josef Mengele, awarded Prix Renaudot in 2017. 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