Laurent Gaudé

Talk

Laurent Gaudé won the Goncourt prize in 2004 for The House of Scorta. His latest novel Hell’s Gate (Gallic, tr. Emily Boyce) is a thrilling story of love, loss, revenge and redemption in Naples and beyond, in which Gaudé questions the power of origins, death and family ties. Chaired by Boyd Tonkin, with translator Adriana Hunter.

Beyond Words Festival
6pm £7, conc. £5