Panel Discussion: Immigration & Identity
Jenny Erpenbeck’s masterful new novel
Go, Went, Gone explores the sometimes fraught and always complex relationship between a retired classics professor and a group of African asylum seekers in Berlin.
The Guardian praises Jenny as “Europe’s outstanding literary seer” while The New Yorker likens her to J.M. Coetzee and V.S. Naipaul.
She joins Michelle de Kretser to discuss her powerful response to the refugee crisis and explore some of the questions it raises about race, immigration and identity.
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.
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Australia. Her fiction has won several awards, including the Miles Franklin. Her most recent novel is The Life to Come. Her monograph On Shirley Hazzard will be published in 2019.
Jenny Erpenbeck's visit to Australia is supported by the Goethe-Institut.
This event is part of the series
Jenny Erpenbeck in Australia.
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