With the publication of his breakout novel, Une éducation libertine (A Libertine Education),  French novelist Jean-Baptiste Del Amo has made a name for himself with his sensory, poetic, and sometimes graphic writing, also evident in Animalia (Grove Atlantic, 2020, trans by F. Wynn) and his latest novel just out in the US (Grove Atlantic, 2024, trans by F. Wynn).

On Saturday, September 28 at 3pm, join  Jean-Baptiste Del Amo and Brandon Taylor as they discuss Del Amo’s latest novel, The Son of Man, an exceptional novel of nature and wildness that traces how violence is inherited from one generation to the next, and a blistering examination of how families fold together and break apart under duress.

The conversation will take place in English and will be followed by a book signing. Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s and Brandon Taylor’s books will be available for purchase in French and in English. This event is free with RSVP. Click here for tickets.

This event is co-organized with Villa Albertine, and is made possible by Villa Albertine’s Marfa “Inhabiting the Desert” residency program, Grove Atlantic, and the Brooklyn Book Festival.

JEAN-BAPTISTE DEL AMO was born in 1981 and is one of France’s most exciting and ambitious young writers. He is the author of Une éducation libertine (Gallimard), which won the 2009 Goncourt First Novel Prize. Animalia (trans. by Frank Wynne, Grove Atlantic), his fourth novel, won the 2017 Prix du Livre Inter and the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Prix Goncourt, Prix Femina, Prix Médicis and Prix Wepler. Photo credits: © SG

BRANDON TAYLOR is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.