Faulty boy: Sam Albatros' stand up + discussion with Patricia Barbeito

Sam Albatros (UCL PhD & best-selling author) will perform a stand-up number on being a queer artist, novelist & scientist. They will then be joined for a discussion by Patricia Felisa Barbeito (Professor of American Literatures), to talk about Sam's novel faulty boy, the first novel in Greece to be written in the voice of a gender non-conforming character who comes of age in the early 2000s. The event marks the launch of faulty boy as audiobook (available at apple books, google play, audiobooks.com and libro.fm)

Sam Albatros is an academic at King’s College London, writer, poet, translator and an internationally-acclaimed performance artist based in London, with a strong social-media presence in the Greek-speaking world. Their work has been supported by prestigious writing residencies in Berlin (Literarisches Colloquium Berlin) and Leipzig (Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, HALLE 14, Edit), and they have been the recipient of a Stavros Niarchos Foundation & Artworks Fellowship for young artists. Their debut novel faulty boy is currently translated into English and Spanish.

Patricia Felisa Barbeito has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, and is Professor of American Literatures at the Rhode Island School of Design and an acclaimed translator of Greek fiction and poetry.  Her full-length translations include Menis Koumandareas’s Their Smell Makes Me Want to Cry (Birmingham Modern Greek Translations, 2004); Elias Maglinis’s The Interrogation (Birmingham Modern Greek Translations, 2013), which was short-listed for the 2014 Greek National Translation Award and granted the 2013 Modern Greek Studies Association’s Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize; Tatiana Averoff’s:Portrait of the Politician as a Young Man (Peter Lang, Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies, 2018);M. Karagatsis, The Great Chimera (Aiora, 2019); Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife (Dalkey Archive, 2019), which was short-listed for that year’s National Translation Award in the US. She is the recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship to translate M. Karagatsis’s Junkermann. Her translation of Christos Chomenidis’s Niki is forthcoming from the Other Press.

All welcome. The event will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity for further informal discussion.