Hisham Matar & Andre Mangeot - ‘CB1 visits the Michaelhouse Café’ – Tues 27 Mar

Fiction & Poetry Evening
Tuesday 27 March 2007 @ 8pm

Hisham Matar and André Mangeot

with music from Andrea Cockerton

www.michaelhouse.org.uk
Michaelhouse Café, Trinity St, Cambridge CB2 1SU, 01223 309167

Tickets £5 / £4 (tickets on the door)

Hisham Matar was born in New York City in 1970 to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli, then in Cairo. He has lived in London since 1986.
His first novel, IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN (Viking, 2006), was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and The Guardian First Book Award and translated into 22 languages. Hisham’s essays have appeared in The Independent and The Guardian. He is currently working on his second novel.
Hisham was a loyal supporter of the CB1 Café reading series in its early days and gave several memorable readings of his poetry there in the late 1990’s. We are delighted to welcome him back to Cambridge for his first reading here since his Booker shortlisting.
'Glowing with emotional truth… Extraordinary… One of the most brilliant literary debuts of recent years.' The Times

André Mangeot lives and works in Cambridge. His two poetry collections to date are Natural Causes (Shoestring, 2003) and Mixer (Egg Box, 2005). He was runner-up in the 2006 Wigtown/Scottish National poetry competition and is also a member of the performance group, The Joy of Six. The recent recipient of an Arts Council ‘Escalator’ award, he is currently writing a novel set in Romania.
Hisham and André will be reading from their novels, as well as related poems, during the evening.

Andrea Cockerton, a local musician with an exceptional voice, is based just outside Cambridge. She is influenced by a mixture of choral, acoustic, dance music and plainsong. Formerly a chorister at Trinity College Cambridge and a classically trained pianist under Margie Todd, Andrea now devotes her time to writing songs, acoustic sets and, soon, dj-ing…