at the Working Class Literature Day in Tampere
The German author
Antje Rávik Strubel will be interviewed by the Finnish author
Alexandra Salmela. She will also read excerpts from her upcoming novel, in which the protagonist, a woman from the Czech Republic under economic pressures and working on the black market, ends up in a hotel in Helsinki.
The translator
Veera Kaski will read excerpts in Finnish.
Foto: Zaia Alexander
Antje Rávik Strubel is a German author and translator, based in Potsdam. She has written eight works of fiction, essayistic travel books and has been rewarded with several literary prizes. Recently, she received the Preis der Literaturhäuser 2019. Strubel taught at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig and was the first writer in residence to be invited by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2012. She has translated works by Joan Didion and Lucia Berlin from English into German. In August/ September she spends four weeks in Helsinki as writer in residence invited by the Goethe-Institut Finnland.
The program is organised by the German Cultural Centre in Tampere and the Goethe-Institut Finnland.
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