Speakers: Edmund de Waal

Prize-winning author and artist Edmund de Waal talks about his library of exile. “This library celebrates the idea that all languages are diasporic, that we need other people’s words, self-definitions and re-definitions in translation.” Edmund de Waal Edmund’s library comprises more than 2,000 volumes in almost all the languages of the world, written by exiled authors from antiquity to the present day. It has been exhibited in Venice and Dresden and will open at the British Museum in March 2020. This event was introduced by Jewish Book Council Trustee Stephanie Marcus.