Monday, March 25 from 4:30PM-6:30PM, Hodges 324 

In this creative writing workshop, we will explore the art, ethics, and politics of translation, and welcome multilinguism and multiculturalism in our writing. We'll look at translation both at the micro and macro levels: thinking about the difficulty of translating one given story, one given word, or one’s culture, one’s world. We'll learn how (self)translation can be used as a tool toward revision, and what the languages we speak/are in the process of learning can teach us about the words we choose and the stories we write. The workshop is intended to allow students to explore creative expression in French, and is open to students from beginning to advanced levels.

Julia Malye is the author of four novels published in France and works as a translator for Les Belles Lettres. She wrote her fourth novel and English debut both in French and in English: Pelican Girls, which is currently being translated in more than 20 languages. At the age of twenty-one, she moved to the United States to study fiction writing and graduated from Oregon State University's MFA program in 2017. Since 2015, she has been teaching creative writing to students both in the U.S. at Oregon State University and in France at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Sciences Po Paris. 

This workshop is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at LSU, as well as anyone else within the LSU community who is interested.