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Lázár by Nelio Biedermann

Book Launch & Discussion|German Literature

  • Goethe-Institut London Library, London

  • English
  • Tickets £6, £3 concessions and for Goethe-Institut language students & library members.
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Nelio Biedermann © Ruben Hollinger

Nelio Biedermann / book cover / Jamie Bulloch © Ruben Hollinger: Nelio portrait © Quercus: book cover © J Bulloch: J Bulloch portrait

Discover Lázár - the sweeping new novel from Switzerland’s rising literary star, Nelio Biedermann, in conversation with his translator Jamie Bulloch. The discussion will be chaired by Fred Studemann, literary editor of the Financial Times.

Born during the last stages of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Lajos von Lázár inherits a legacy of power, decadence and dark secrets. In the shadow of a cursed forest and dilapidated castle, it is left to his defiant children to challenge oppression and take the first steps towards freedom.

Drawing on his own aristocratic family background, Biedermann delivers a first-class page turner (Süddeutsche Zeitung), taking the reader on a unique journey through history from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Hungarian National Uprising of 1956.  Lázár promises to inspire fans of European history and German literature, and introduces us to one of Europe's youngest literary authors. 

A truly great writer steps onto the stage, in full possession of his powers (Daniel Kehlmann)

The conversation with the author Nelio Biedermann and the translator Jamie Bulloch will be moderated by Frederick Studemann.

 

Short Biographies

  • Nelio Biedermann, born in 2003, grew up on Lake Zurich. His paternal family is of Hungarian nobility; his grandparents fled to Switzerland in the 1950s. Biedermann studied German and film studies at the University of Zurich. His novel Lázár will be published in more than twenty countries.
     

    Nelio Biedermann website

  • Jamie Bulloch is the translator of over sixty works from German, including those by Birgit Vanderbeke, Arno Geiger, Sebastian Fitzek, Robert Menasse, Romy Hausmann and Daniela Krien. He is also twice winner of the Schlegel-Tieck translation prize.

  • Frederick Studemann is Literary Editor of the Financial Times.He joined the FT in 1996 as Berlin correspondent, having also served as assistant news editor, UK correspondent, European news editor, Analysis editor and most recently as Comment & Analysis editor . He was a founding member of FT Deutschland where he ran the features and weekend section. He was a judge of the 2023 International Book Prize for Fiction in Translation; and the Chair of Judges for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
     

  • Quercus MacLehose