Literature Live: Mariko Nagai and Richard Lloyd Parry - Japan Now
20 Feb 2018
On Monday 26 February, 7.30pm, at the Martin Harris Centre
Join us to celebrate UNESCO City of Literature International Mother Language Day (IMLD).
How do writers – both natives and ‘outsiders’ - respond to tragedy and recount the lived experience of survivors?
Mariko Nagai is a poet, novelist and photographer whose latest book Irradiations, sifts through landscape and history to present the contemporary life of four Japanese cities, each marked by catastrophe.
Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts Of The Tsunami is a painstaking dispatch from the 2011 Japanese tsunami and the spiritual and psychological landscape left in its wake, described as ‘a brilliant, unflinching account’ by Rachel Cooke in the Observer.
Together the books present a poignant picture of Japanese society today.
Programmed by Modern Culture in partnership with the Japan Foundation and Sheffield University. Supported by Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Japan Society.
To book:
Tickets are priced at £7 / £5 and are available from:
- Martin Harris Centre Box Office 0161 275 8951 (12.30-2.30pm weekdays) or
- Online at Quaytickets