#  Writers Speak: Edouard Louis in conversation with Tara Menon 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 27, 2026** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Sever Hall, Room 113**  



 

 



 

### Speaker: Édouard Louis

### In Conversation with Tara K. Menon

#### About the Speakers

Édouard Louis is the author of *The End of Eddy*, *History of Violence*, *Who Killed My Father*, *A Woman’s Battles and Transformations*, *Change*, *Monique Escapes*, and *Collapse*, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in *The New York Times*, *The Guardian*, and *Freeman’s*. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. He lives in Paris.

[Tara K. Menon](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/tara-k-menon) is a former Junior Fellow and currently an Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University. Her first academic book, *Speaking Parts: Character, Conversation, and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century British Novels*, will be published in Fall 2026 by Princeton University Press. Her debut novel, *Under Water,* will be published in March 2026 by Riverhead (US) and Summit (UK). Rights have also sold in 31 other territories. Her reviews and essays have appeared in venues including the *New York Times Book Review*, *Los Angeles Review of Books*, *Public Books*, *The Sewanee Review*, *Bookforum*, and *The Nation*.

#### [About the Series: Writers Speak](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/writers-speak)

Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, [Writers Speak](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/writers-speak) brings significant contemporary writers to speak on campus, with the intention of fostering literary conversation.



 

 



 

 

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