Mathias Énard & Chris Power: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 7 p.m. · 53 minutes

Mathias Énard’s latest novel The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild (tr. Frank Wynne) takes us to the marshlands of South West France in a Rabelaisian celebration of life, love and death. Juan Gabriel Vasquez writes of him ‘Every novel by Mathias Énard reminds me of the reasons why I read fiction. He is ambitious, erudite, full of life, and a wonderful stylist to boot. He is one of the great novelists of our time.'

He read from his work and was in conversation about it with Chris Power.