Harif, Spiro Ark and Exiled Writers Ink present
Pillar of Salt, thirty years on:
a tribute to Albert Memmi
Wednesday 23 November, 7.30pm
Film (57 minutes) and Lecture by Professor Debra Kelly
How to Live: One Question and Six or Seven Life Lessons with Albert Memmi
It is thirty years since the film Pillar of Salt, based on the autobiographical novel by the great sociologist and writer Albert Memmi, captured the cultural richness and social complexity of a Jewish boy's life in Tunis.
Harif, Spiro Ark and Exiled Writers Ink are proud to have put together this tribute to Albert Memmi The evening will feature a screening of the film and a talk by one of the foremost experts on his work, Professor Debra Kelly.
Debra Kelly is Professor of French and Francophone Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of Modern and Applied Languages, University of Westminster, London.. Her major publications are Pierre Albert-Birot. A Poetics in Movement, A Poetics of Movement (1997) and Autobiography and Independence. Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French (2005).
Tickets £8 from The Spiro Ark - 020 7723 9991 Fax 0207 723 8191 Education@spiroark.org
Venue: Spiro Ark Centre, 25 -26 Enford Street, W1 H 1DW
Virtually opposite the Landmark Hotel
www.harif.org ; www.spiroark.org ; www.exiledwriters.co.uk
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