SANT JORDI USA - APRIL 23, 2023 - 3pm EST - IN-PERSON/LIVE-STREAMED In person at Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World with Author Irene Vallejo, translator Sarah Ruden and editor Charlotte Whittle Irene Vallejo is the author of the internationally bestselling Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, which has been translated into over 30 languages. Papyrus was awarded the National Essay Prize and the Critical Eye Prize for Narrative in Spain. Vallejo is a regular columnist for El País and Heraldo de Aragón, and she is the author of two novels, three collections of essays, articles, and short fiction, and two children’s books. She lives in Spain. Sarah Ruden is a leading translator of ancient texts, including Virgil’s Aeneid and Augustine’s Confessions; her book The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Biblewas published by Knopf/Pantheon in 2017. Her prose has appeared in The American Scholar, The Wall Street Journal and Books & Culture. She is the author of the poetry collection Other Places and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award. She lives in Connecticut. Charlotte Whittle’s work has appeared in The Literary Review, Los Angeles Times, Guernica, BOMB, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her translations include novels by Jorge Comensal, Elisa Victoria, and Norah Lange; her most recent translation is Papyrus, the international bestseller by Irene Vallejo. She lives in England and New York. http://santjordiusa.org To donate: http://farragutfund.org Thank you!!!!