Join us for an evening of talking + exploring researching and translating histories, legacies + families, exploitation and xenophobia and much much more.

We are over the moon to welcome Jen Calleja in the Haus to discuss her beautiful new novel “Vehicle”.
Constructed in the most interesting + captivating way, you follow a group of scholars through their discussions, recollections, documentations, conversations and imaginations and learn about the Isletese Disaster (the decline + subsequent devastation fifty years earlier of a long-forgotten roaming archipelago called The Islets)- and all of this happens in a time when looking into the past has become a socially unacceptable + illegal act in the Nation. It’s a clever and unique exploration of writing + researching + translating histories, legacies and families, exploitation and xenophobia.

Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator based in Hastings. Her books include Vehicle: a verse novel, the short fiction collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For and the long poem Dust Sucker. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Marion Poschmann’s The Pine Islands and is currently Translator in Residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation. She is also co-publisher at Praspar Press, a micro-press for Maltese literature.

Tickets are £5 which includes a glass of wine/ a soft drink and £2 off the book.

Entry requirements: — Read more — Read less