I Could Tell You Stories: An Autobiographical Keynote
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Please join us as Padma Viswanathan, author of The Toss of a Lemon, The Charterhouse of Padma, and Ever After of Ashwin Rao, as she discusses her life in stories.
About the Keynote Speaker
Padma Viswanathan
Padma Viswanathan’s debut novel, The Toss of a Lemon, was published in eight countries, a bestseller in three, and a finalist for the Commonwealth (Regional) First Book Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Prize and the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize. The second novel, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, was published in Canada, the USA, India and Australia. In Canada, it was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a national bestseller. In 2020, the New York Review Books published her first book-length translation (from Brazilian Portuguese), the novel São Bernardo, by the late, lauded Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos, in their Classics series. It was runner-up for the UK Society of Authors’ TA First Translation Prize and shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She has since published another book-length translation, Where We Stand (Yale University Press), by the philosopher Djamila Ribeiro. Her most recent books are the novel, The Charterhouse of Padma, and Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime.
This event is part of the Global Arts Festival which is hosted by the Bhisé Center for Global Understanding, Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation, and the Departments of Art, Dance, English, Music, and Theatre in the College of Arts and Sciences.
For any questions, please reach out to Louise Geddes at lgeddes@adelphi.edu or 516.877.3796.