MIT / French Library Author Series: Before I Forget with Anne Pauly

Anne Pauly is a Paris-based French writer and winner of the Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Robert Walser. Her debut novel, Before I Forget, was also shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, Prix Femina, and Prix Wepler. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a journalist and wrote on music, feminism, queer culture, and literature. In Before I Forget, Pauly recounts the aftermath of her father’s death and the complicated task of mourning a man who was at once a self-taught philosopher and romantic, and an alcoholic whose violence marked his family. As Anne sorts through his belongings and prepares hi