The French author Jean-Christophe Rufin is visiting Finland today and tomorrow. Tonight he will be interviewed by Kimmo Lehtonen at seven (Mannerheim-sali, Uusi ylioppilastalo, Mannerheimintie 5 A, 5th floor; free admittance) at an event organized by HYSFK and his publisher Tammi.Rufin’s book Globalia just came out in Finnish.
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A very nice meeting with monsieur Rufin. Kimmo had few questions prepared, but I guess J-C managed to answer most of those well before Kimmo was able to ask his second question. Rufin answered in a very roundabout-way, which while being entertaining and informative, tended to float around quite a bit.
Audience was smallish, about twenty, but interestingly mainly consisting of non-sf people; there were probably few French students, some elderly people who had read todays Hesari and at least two reporters. And people asked questions the moments they were given a chance! All in all, a nice gathering.
More of this, methinks.
Woerd du jour: Ax Brielson exclaimed: "Boil in my boots if there aren't days when a word comes into my head and I find myself saying to it: 'Zurxzlv? What are you, anyway? A Turkish verb? an Arab city? some bit of Finnish?' The giant Rus sighed wearily."
Yes, rub it in, why dont you? No, I’m glad the event went well, even if I wasn’t able to attend (due to you all being in the wrong city and all). :)
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