In Conversation
Jenny Erpenbeck: Memory & Forgetting

Panel Discussion: Home & Exile

Sun, 05.05.2019
3:00 PM - 16:00 Carriageworks

Celebrated German author Jenny Erpenbeck meets Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan for a broad-ranging discussion about the importance of memory, family and heritage in her writing. Jenny sheds light on her personal history in East Germany and discusses the importance of music and theatre in her stories.

Jenny Erpenbeck is a bestselling author and director. Her works include her latest novel Going Went, Gone, as well as The Old Child & The Book of Words, Visitation and The End of Days. She won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The New Yorker has praised her “classical restraint”, comparing her to JM Coetzee, VS Naipul and Teju Cole. Her fiction is published in 27 languages.

Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan has received the Man Booker Prize and numerous other honours and has been published in 42 countries. His works include Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and First Person.

Jenny Erpenbeck's visit to Australia is supported by the Goethe-Institut.

This event is part of the series Jenny Erpenbeck in Australia.