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Meet the Author with Dmitrij Kapitelman: Russische Spezialitäten (Russian Specialities)
Online Reading and Discussion|Online Reading and Discussion
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Online Online
- Language German
- Price Free entry
- Part of series: #MeetTheAuthor - International Book Club
On 2 December, the author Dmitrij Kapitelman will be a guest at #MeetTheAuthor. The discussion will be hosted by journalist and author Doris Akrap. The event will take place online and in German. As always, participation is free of charge and everyone is welcome.
Russische Spezialitäten (Russian Specialities)
In his latest novel, Kapitelman combines bittersweet humour with sharp political insight to explore family, identity, and the challenge of understanding in times of war. A family from Kyiv runs a shop in Leipzig selling Russian delicacies—vodka, pelmeni, SIM cards, sailor shirts—and a fragile sense of belonging shattered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The mother supports Putin, while her son, who loves the Russian language, his mother, and Kyiv, struggles to rescue her from propaganda and lies.
It’s a story that is tragic, tender, and funny all at once—only Dmitrij Kapitelman could write it.
Dmitrij Kapitelman
Author
Dmitrij Kapitelman was born in Kyiv in 1986 and moved to Germany with his family at the age of eight. He studied political science and sociology at the University of Leipzig before graduating from the German School of Journalism in Munich. Today, he works as a freelance journalist.
His debut book, Das Lächeln meines unsichtbaren Vaters (2016), won the Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize. This was followed in 2021 by Eine Formalie in Kiew, which earned him the Ravensburger Verlag Foundation’s Family Novel Prize. Russische Spezialitäten (2025) was longlisted for the German Book Prize.