{"id":376718,"date":"2023-11-24T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_professional&#038;p=376718"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:58:07","slug":"author-on-tour-david-diop","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-david-diop\/","title":{"rendered":"Author on Tour: David Diop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About David Diop<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David Diop<\/strong> was born in Paris and raised in Senegal. He is the Head of the Arts, Languages and Literature Department at the University of Pau, where his research includes such topics as eighteenth-century French literature and European representation of Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 2021, David Diop received the International Booker Prize and the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Book Prize for his second novel, <em>At Night All Blood Is Black<\/em> (<em>Fr\u00e8re d\u2019\u00e2me<\/em>, Seuil; trans. by Anna Moschovakis, Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2020). His latest book, <em>Beyond the Door of No Return<\/em> was shortlisted for the 2023 National Book Award.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374606770\/beyondthedoorofnoreturn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1650\" height=\"2535\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cover-image-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376858\" style=\"width:300px;height:undefinedpx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cover-image-min.jpg 1650w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cover-image-min-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cover-image-min-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cover-image-min-768x1180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cover-image-min-1000x1536.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cover-image-min-1333x2048.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>About <em>Beyond the Door of No Return<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>(trans. by Sam Taylor, Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux 2023)<\/p>\n<p>Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman\u2019s name: Maram. The key to this mysterious woman\u2019s identity is Andanson\u2019s unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal. Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegal\u2019s oral traditions, David Diop takes the readers, throughout his novel, on an exciting journey into the Senegalese bush and tells us a love story like few others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beyond the Door of No Return<\/em> was released in the United States in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374606770\/beyondthedoorofnoreturn\">Find more information here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Program<\/h3>\n<p>David Diop will be on tour in the US in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>His public program will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday, April 15: conversation with Johann Le Guelte @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgetown.edu\/event\/a-conversation-with-french-author-david-diop\/\">Georgetown University<\/a> (Washington DC) \u2013 event in French;<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, April 16: conversation with Kathryn Kleppinger @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics-prose.com\/david-diop\">Politics and Prose<\/a> (Washington DC) \u2013 event in English;<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, April 17: conversation with Ameneh Madjlessi @ <a href=\"https:\/\/francedc.org\/eventbrite\/865826037987\">Alliance Fran\u00e7aise DC<\/a> (Washington DC) \u2013 event in French;<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, April 18: conversation with Madhu Kaza @ <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforfiction.org\/event\/in-translation-david-diop-on-beyond-the-door-of-no-return-with-madhu-h-kaza\/\">The Center for Fiction<\/a> (New York, NY) \u2013 event in English;<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, April 21: participation in the US Goncourt Prize Selection Ceremony @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albertine.com\/events\/2024-us-goncourt-prize-selection-ceremony\/\">Villa Albertine<\/a> (New York, NY) \u2013 event in English;<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, April 24: conversation with Laurence Marie @ <a href=\"https:\/\/maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu\/events\/david-diop-conversation-french-laurence-marie\">Maison Fran\u00e7aise Columbia<\/a> (New York, NY) \u2013 event in French;<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, April 24: conversation with Joumana Khatib @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albertine.com\/events\/beyond-the-door-of-no-return-an-evening-with-david-diop\/\">Albertine<\/a> (New York, NY) \u2013 event in English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, please email Valentine Richet at <a href=\"mailto: valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org\" data-cke-saved-href=\"mailto: valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org\">valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":470220,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[217],"app_professional_category":[260],"app_professional_content_type":[254],"class_list":["post-376718","app_professional","type-app_professional","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-nyc","app_professional_category-books-ideas","app_professional_content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Author on Tour: David Diop - 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\/professionals\/author-on-tour-david-diop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Author on Tour: David Diop - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"About David Diop David Diop was born in Paris and raised in Senegal. 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