Meet the author Karim Kattan
Wed 30 April at 5pmPalestinian author Karim Kattan was born in 1989 in Jerusalem and grew up in Bethlehem.
The Palace on the Higher Hill, his first novel, won the 2021 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, and his most recent novel, L’Eden à l’aube, was shortlisted for the 2024 Prix Renaudot.
Karim joins us for a presentation of The Palace on the Higher Hill, translated for the first time into English.
In beautiful, angry prose, he introduces us to an intimate Palestine of the imagination where dreams and nightmares are in constant conflict. With hints of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Brideshead Revisited, he gives a nuanced deeply moving vision of the tragedy of war and a picture of his homeland that feels entirely new to English-speaking readers.