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Books & Literature
Giuliano da Empoli presents The Wizard of the Kremlin
Thursday 16th November 2023 — 7:00pm to 8:30pm
IN-PERSON EVENT AT THE ALLIANCE (DISCUSSION IN FRENCH & RECEPTION)
Alliance Française of Washington is thrilled and honored to receive Giuliano da Empoli, Italian-Swiss author and political scientist, whose best-selling novel, Le mage du Kremlin has just appeared in the US in English as The Wizard of the Kremlin. This is Giuliano da Empoli's first novel - he previously published books on politics and economics. It won the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française in 2022 and was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize. The novel will be translated into more than thirty languages.
Giuliano da Empoli will be in conversation (en français) with the AFDC Executive Director Sarah Diligenti. They will discuss fiction and reality in the novel, how fiction can transcend reality and how reality can inspire fiction, the myth of power in Russia as a nation-building instrument through literature. The novel was the topic of an 8-week Literature Class at the Alliance Française of Washington DC in Spring 2023.
Copies of the book will be available for sale in English and in French. You can also order your copies in advance with Bonjour Books DC.
Le Mage du Kremlin (in French): order here.
The Wizard of the Kremlin (in English): order here.
Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. You will be able to ask your questions in French or English. We will end the event with a light reception.