{"id":4934459,"date":"2025-08-29T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_professional&p=4934459"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:54:21","slug":"author-on-tour-santiago-amigorena","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-santiago-amigorena\/","title":{"rendered":"Author on Tour: Santiago Amigorena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About Santiago Amigorena<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Santiago Amigorena<\/strong> is a screenwriter, producer, and author. He has written 14 novels, which have been translated into more than 20 languages. Santiago Amigorena has also worked as a scriptwriter on over 30 feature films, collaborating with notable directors such as C\u00e9dric Klapisch, Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Brigitte Rouan, Jean-Pierre Limosin, Agn\u00e8s Merlet, Idrissa Ouedraogo, and Juan Solanas (Upside Down<\/em>). His directorial debut, A Few Days in September<\/em>, was featured in the Official Selection of the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, and it was distributed worldwide. Santiago Amigorena’s second film, Another Silence<\/em> was also shown at the Venice Film Festival in 2011 as part of the Venice Days program, and his third film, Les Enfants Rouges<\/em>, was presented in festivals in Rio and Beirut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ghetto Within<\/em> (trans. by Frank Wynne, HarperCollins) is Santiago Amigorena\u2019s US debut novel. It was shortlisted for several prestigious literary awards in France and won the Prix des libraires de Nancy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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About The Ghetto Within<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

(trans. by Frank Wynne, HarperCollins, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A critical sensation in France, <\/strong>The Ghetto Within<\/a><\/em> is Amigorena’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather\u2019s silence. Passed down, from generation to generation, the silence of Amigorena\u2019s grandfather became his own. A gripping study of inheritance, The Ghetto Within<\/em> re-imagines the life of this Jewish grandfather, a Polish exile in Argentina, whose guilt provokes an enduring silence to span generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1928. Vicente Rosenberg is one of countless European \u00e9migr\u00e9s making a new life for themselves in Argentina. Here, he will create a family and start a profitable business. Still, despite success, he will ache for his mother, Gustawa, who stayed behind in Warsaw with his siblings. For years, she writes him several times a month. But over time, his mother’s letters become increasingly sporadic and Vicente, through delayed missives and late transmissions, begins to construct the reality of a tragedy that has already occurred. And one day, the letters stop altogether. Racked with guilt and anxiety over the fate of his mother and family, he lapses into a deep despair and longstanding silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his new novel, Amigorena employs language to reclaim his “voice” from the oblivion of familial trauma. An effort to understand the ways in which his grandfather\u2019s silence continues to affect the generations that followed, The Ghetto Within<\/em> is a powerful new addition to Holocaust canon, a stunning introduction of an essential new voice to English readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find more information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schedule<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Santiago Amigorena will be on tour in the US in September 2025 (more details to come).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His public schedule will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n