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Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 2020, as part of Alina Gurdiel’s series Ma nuit au mus\u00e9e,<\/em> where writers are invited to spend a night in a museum, Jakuta Alikavazovic camped out in the Louvre Museum. At home: her nine-month-old son. In her overnight bag: a notebook, a toiletry kit, a duvet, a cube of nougat, and something that shouldn\u2019t be there. In her head: memories of the Venus de Milo, of land art and the American road, of romance, travel, immigration and war, and of her father, who after each of their many visits to the Louvre would ask just how she\u2019d go about stealing the Mona Lisa. Like A Sky Inside<\/em> is an insightful and heartfelt meditation on the possibilities and impossibilities of art, on parenthood and the betrayals of growing up, on foreignness and belonging, and on the secret conversations between our souls and the places that linger in our dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A perfect sculpture of pure thought, the kind of artwork that makes you want to steal it, a generous and joyful book that stitches memory and philosophy and narrative together so elegantly I was completely enthralled.” Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X <\/em>and Pew<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Like a Sky Inside <\/em>is about a night spent at the Louvre, but really it is about art and enchantment, exile and longing. Above all, it is a devastatingly tender portrait of Alikavazovic\u2019s relationship with her father, written with unsurpassed brio, intelligence, and empathy.” Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies<\/em> and A Separation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Jakuta Alikavazovic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born in Paris to a family of Bosnian and Montenegrin origins. Her parents settled in France in the early 1970\u2019s and Jakuta Alikavazovic was brought up bilingual, with close ties to her Bosnian and Montenegrin relatives. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Goncourt Prize for a first novel and more recently, the M\u00e9dicis Prize for non-fiction with her latest work Like A Sky Inside<\/em> (Comme un ciel en nous<\/em>, Stock; trans. by Daniel Levin Becker, Fern Books, 2024). She is also a columnist for the French newspaper Lib\u00e9ration<\/em> and the translator into French of authors including Toni Morrison and David Foster Wallace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Translator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Levin Becker is the author of Many Subtle Channels<\/em> and What\u2019s Good<\/em> and the translator of, most recently, \u00c9ric Chevillard\u2019s Museum Visits<\/em> and Laurent Mauvignier\u2019s The Birthday Party<\/em>, which was long-listed for the International Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event is part of Villa Albertine\u2019s Authors on Tour<\/em> program. Jakuta Alikavazovic\u2019s 2024 US tour is also made possible by Fern Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":604341,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[226],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-604281","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-dc","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLike a Sky Inside: A Conversation with Jakuta Alikavazovic - 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\/like-a-sky-inside-a-conversation-with-jakuta-alikavazovic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Like a Sky Inside: A Conversation with Jakuta Alikavazovic - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Overview In March 2020, as part of Alina Gurdiel’s series Ma nuit au mus\u00e9e, where writers are invited to spend a night in a museum, Jakuta Alikavazovic camped out in the Louvre Museum. 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