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White Whale Bookstore will be hosting what is sure to be an amazing and thought-provoking virtual conversation with author Titaua Peu and translator Jeffrey Zuckerman of Pina! Winner of the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize and the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize, Pina is a gut punch of a novel from Tahiti, elegantly translated from the French, about a family torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism. Pina is now available to order on our bookstore.

When: October 5, 7 pm - 8 pm ET
Where: Online, via Zoom. Register here.

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Titaua Peu is a Tahitian author known for her politically charged, realistic portrayal of the effects of colonialism on contemporary Polynesia. Peu’s unsparing first novel, Mutismes, was published in 2003, sparking immediate scandal and making her the youngest-ever published Tahitian author at age twenty-eight. Pina was awarded the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, a first for Polynesian literature. She currently lives in Tahiti where she serves as the general manager of the municipality of Pā'ea.

Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French, including books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and he was awarded the French Voices Grand Prize for his translation of Pina. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He currently lives in New York City.