{"id":60382,"date":"2023-06-12T19:15:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/leila-slimani-in-conversation-with-erin-lewenauer\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:46:48","slug":"leila-slimani-in-conversation-with-erin-lewenauer","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/leila-slimani-in-conversation-with-erin-lewenauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Leila Slimani in conversation with Erin Lewenauer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boswellbooks.com\/opening-letter-0\">Boswell Book Company<\/a> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/afmilwaukee.org\/\">Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Milwaukee<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0present a special virtual event featuring Franco-Moroccan author and journalist Leila Slimani, whose bestselling novel\u00a0<em>The Perfect Nanny<\/em>\u00a0earned her France\u2019s prestigious Prix Goncourt. Slimani will spend an afternoon hour in conversation about her new novel,\u00a0<em>Watch Us Dance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong>Watch Us Dance\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>recounts the rebellions within an interracial family that play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of\u00a0<em>The Perfect Nanny<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>In the Country of Others<\/em>. Le\u00efla Slimani draws on her family\u2019s inspiring story to deliver a tense, provocative, page-turning novel about one family\u2019s, and one country\u2019s, coming of age in the face of the seductions of power and privilege.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_86bsmAWVRcCpabAu1jnuSQ\">Please click here to register for this virtual event<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1392\" height=\"2057\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover20-20Watch20Us20Dance20-209780593493304.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover20-20Watch20Us20Dance20-209780593493304.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover20-20Watch20Us20Dance20-209780593493304-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover20-20Watch20Us20Dance20-209780593493304-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover20-20Watch20Us20Dance20-209780593493304-768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover20-20Watch20Us20Dance20-209780593493304-1039x1536.jpg 1039w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Cover20-20Watch20Us20Dance20-209780593493304-1386x2048.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Le\u00efla Slimani\u00a0<\/strong>is the bestselling author of\u00a0<strong><em>The Perfect Nanny<\/em><\/strong>, one of The New York Times Book Review\u2019s 10 Best Books of 2018, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France\u2019s most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt. Her other books include<em>\u00a0<strong>Ad\u00e8le<\/strong><\/em><strong>,\u00a0<em>Sex and Lies<\/em><\/strong>, and the #1 international bestsellers\u00a0<strong><em>In the Country of Others<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>Watch Us Dance<\/em><\/strong>, which are the first and second parts of a trilogy of novels based on her family\u2019s roots in revolutionary Morocco. Le\u00efla Slimani was selected by President Emmanuel Macron to be a personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture, and is the chair of the jury for the 2023 International Booker Prize. She was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France\u2019s annual list of the Fifty Most Influential French People in the World. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she divides her time between France and Portugal.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Erin Lewenauer<\/strong> works as a Director of Marketing &amp; Cultural Engagement at l&#8217;Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Milwaukee.\u00a0She has degrees in English, French, and creative writing from Vassar College and the University of Pittsburgh and has the privilege of writing for\u00a0<em>Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Rain Taxi<\/em>, among other publications.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":60380,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-60382","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-chi","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>Leila Slimani in conversation with Erin Lewenauer - 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\/leila-slimani-in-conversation-with-erin-lewenauer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leila Slimani in conversation with Erin Lewenauer - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Boswell Book Company and\u00a0Alliance Fran\u00e7aise de Milwaukee\u00a0present a special virtual event featuring Franco-Moroccan author and journalist Leila Slimani, whose bestselling novel\u00a0The Perfect Nanny\u00a0earned her France\u2019s prestigious Prix Goncourt. 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