Presentation of 'The Palace of the Higher Hill' with author Karim Kattan

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This event is part of the Ecriture et Lecture en Conversation series.

Karim Kattan will be discussing his novel The Palace on the Higher Hill, which won the 2021 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and has now been translated into English by Jeffrey Zuckerman. It follows a young man who returns to the village of his birth in Palestine after receiving a letter about the death of an aunt he cannot remember. 

Palestinian author Karim Kattan was born in 1989 in Jerusalem, grew up in Bethlehem, and holds a doctorate in comparative literature. His 2017 short-story collection Préliminaires pour un verger futur was a finalist for the Prix Boccace. The Palace on the Higher Hill, his first novel, won the 2021 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, and his most recent novel, Eden at Dawn, was shortlisted for the 2024 Prix Renaudot.