The Goldsmiths Prize presents Kate Briggs in conversation

Award winning translator and novelist, Kate Briggs, in conversation with writer and critic, Jennifer Hodgson.

Kate Briggs is the translator of Hélène Bessette’s Lili is Crying, and Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes, and the author of This Little Art and The Long Form (Fitzcarraldo Editions), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2023.

Jennifer Hodgson was born and grew up in East Hull and now lives on a hill in South East London. Once an academic, she now writes and teaches at the edges of biography, memoir and archival practice, drawn to lives and works that resist straightforward telling. She edited Ann Quin's The Unmapped Country (And Other Stories) and is currently at work on a new non-fiction book inspired by her long entanglement with Quin’s life and work.

Presented for Deptford Literature Festival by the Goldsmiths Prize, in association with The New Statesman.