Join us for a conversation with one of the most idiosyncratic writers of our time! The celebrated genre-hopping American novelist Jeff VanderMeer will be interviewed by Teodor Reljić for what promises to be a rich and dynamic encounter that truly taps into the theme of this year’s Malta Book Festival: metamorphosis, as expressed by its tagline – writing anew. Author of the award-winning Southern Reach series – the first of which, Annihilation, was adapted to a cult feature film by Alex Garland, starring Natalie Portman – VanderMeer will delve into his recent return to the now-quadrology for a parting salvo (Absolution), the evolution of his hard-to-define literary style and how the climate crisis continues to spur his fiction. The event will be followed by book signing. 

Entrance is free but registration is required.

About the author 
Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander; the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts); and the Southern Reach series (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance and Absolution), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Paramount. He has spoken at MIT, Columbia, Yale, and Vanderbilt, and gave the 2024 John Hersey Memorial Address at the Key West Literary Seminar. Environmental nonfiction by VanderMeer has appeared in Time, The Nation, Current Affairs, and Esquire, among others. VanderMeer founded the Sunshine State Biodiversity Group nonprofit in 2023. VanderMeer also co-edited (with wife Ann VanderMeer) ground-breaking anthologies such as Best American Fantasy 1 and 2, Steampunk 1 and 2, New Weird, The Weird, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, The Time Traveler’s Almanac, The Big Book of Science Fiction, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy.