{"id":61694,"date":"2022-06-02T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/professionals\/french-author-tour-olivier-guez\/"},"modified":"2024-01-27T21:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:59:59","slug":"french-author-tour-olivier-guez","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/french-author-tour-olivier-guez\/","title":{"rendered":"French Author on Tour: Olivier Guez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Olivier Guez<\/h2>\n\n<p>Born in Strasbourg in 1974, Olivier Guez is a writer and graduate of Sciences Po Strasbourg. He holds a master\u2019s degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a master in European Politics from the European College in Bruges. In 2004, Guez took part in The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), the US Department of State\u2019s premier professional exchange program. As a journalist, he has contributed to<em> Le Monde, Point, the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em>, and the <em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>. He is the co-author of the screenplay <em>der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer<\/em> (<em>Fritz Bauer, a German Hero<\/em>), for which he won the 2016 German Oscar for best script. He is the author several novels and essays that have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is notably the author of a book on the US, <em>American spleen<\/em> (Flammarion 2012), and was the recipient of the 2017 prix Renaudot for <em>La disparition de Josef Mengele,\u00a0<\/em>which is being released by Verso in a translation by Georgia de Chamberet. He has lived in England, Nicaragua, Brussels, Berlin, and Paris, and currently lives in Rome.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1228\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Disappearance.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Disappearance.jpg 800w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Disappearance-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Disappearance-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Disappearance-768x1179.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>About\u00a0<em>The Disappearance of Josef Mengele<\/em><\/h2>\n\n<p>(Verso, 2022, translated by Georgia de Chamberet)<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>An extraordinary novel about one of history\u2019s most reviled figures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>For three decades, 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\u2014until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979. 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\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/3083-the-disappearance-of-josef-mengele\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please email <u><a href=\"mailto:anne-sophie.hermil@villa-albertine.org\">Anne-Sophie Hermil<\/a>.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<h2>2022 Program:<\/h2>\n\n<p>November 1:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.isbos.org\/campus-life\/francophonie\"> International School of Boston<\/a> (In French)<\/p>\n\n<p>November 2:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/olivier-guez-tour\">French Cultural Center, Boston<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>November 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.af-chicago.org\/events\/avec-l-auteur-olivier-guez\/\">Alliance Fran\u00e7aise, Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>November 7: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semcoop.com\/event\/olivier-guez-disappearance-josef-mengele-alison-james\">Sem Coop, Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>November 9:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fit.princeton.edu\/events\/disappearance-josef-mengele\">Princeton University, Princeton<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>November 10: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjhnyc.org\/events\/the-disappearance-of-josef-mengele-book-talk\/.\">Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>November 14: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albertine.com\/events\/the-disappearance-of-josef-mengele-book-launch-event-with-olivier-guez-and-joshua-cohen\/\">Albertine Books, New York<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>November 15:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcnallyjackson.com\/event\/olivier-guez-presents-disappearance-josef-mengele\">McNally Jackson, South Street Seaport, New York<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>November 16: <a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/european-literature-night-feature-olivier-guez\">European Literature Night<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/professionals\/french-author-tour-olivier-guez\">More info<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":61692,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213,233],"app_city_tax":[235,214,223,217,226],"app_professional_category":[260],"app_professional_content_type":[254],"class_list":["post-61694","app_professional","type-app_professional","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_discipline-social-sciences-and-humanities","app_city_tax-all-cities","app_city_tax-bos","app_city_tax-chi","app_city_tax-nyc","app_city_tax-dc","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>French Author on Tour: Olivier Guez - 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\/french-author-tour-olivier-guez\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French Author on Tour: Olivier Guez - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"About Olivier Guez Born in Strasbourg in 1974, Olivier Guez is a writer and graduate of Sciences Po Strasbourg. 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