Join award-winning author and filmmaker Essmat Sophie and translator Gelayoul Salamelahi for a conversation on literature, memory, migration, identity, and feminist storytelling in contemporary multicultural contexts.
Drawing on Sophie’s novel Dancing Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins, the discussion will explore questions of rememory, counter-archives, exile, translation, and the ways literature can carry personal and collective histories across generations, languages, and borders.
Participants
- Essmat Sophie is an award-winning author and filmmaker. Her recent work explores memory, trauma, migration, women’s experiences, and cultural resistance. She is the author of Dancing Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins and currently researches rememory, feminist counter-archives, and the relationship between literature and historical memory.
- Gelayoul Salamelahi is the translator of the Norwegian edition of Dancing Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins. Her interests in literature, multiculturalism, migration, and Middle Eastern societies inform her engagement with questions of memory, identity, language, and cultural transmission across borders.
Practical information
The event is open for all and will be held in English. It will include literary readings, reflections on writing and translation, and an open discussion with participants.
Light refreshments will be served, and participants are warmly invited to stay for informal conversation and networking after the discussion.
The event is supported through academic-social funding from the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS), University of Oslo