🎙️Meet The Author: Meena Kandasamy📚

📚 Join us for a special evening with Meena Kandasamy as we celebrate her powerful new novel, Fieldwork as a Sex Object — an incendiary and fearless work exploring deepfakes, online misogyny, political violence, race, and the chaos of digital life. Set between London and India, the novel follows a young woman whose life spirals after a deepfake video of her goes viral, opening urgent conversations around feminism,
surveillance, shame, and resistance in the internet age. The Irish launch of the book will take place at The Bread and Roses Festival 2026, and we highly recommend attending the festival on 22nd and 23rd May — tickets are still available!

Meena Kandasamy is one of the most vital literary and political voices writing today — a poet, novelist, translator, actor, and anti-caste activist whose work spans fiction, memoir, poetry, and essays. Her acclaimed books include When I Hit You, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize, The Gypsy Goddess, Exquisite Cadavers, and the poetry collections Ms Militancy and Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You. Her translation of Salma's Novel Women Dreaming / Lux and was nominated for Dublin Literary Award in 2022. In 2022, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). The same year, in November, she was also awarded the PEN Hermann Kesten Prize for her writing and work as a ‘fearless fighter for democracy, human rights and the free word.’

During the event, Meena Kandasamy will read from her work (around 3:30 PM), followed by an open and informal conversation with attendees about books, contemporary literature, activism, feminism, politics, and creative practice. This is a casual, warm conversation-style gathering similar to Books & Social, where everyone is welcome to participate, listen, and connect. Whether you are a long-time reader of her work or discovering her writing for the first time, we warmly invite you to join us for an evening of conversation, ideas, and community.
See you all on Sunday! ✨