The Goethe-Institut Library is delighted to welcome the German author Gregor Hens and his English translator Jen Calleja for a lively literary discussion on February 10th. The English translation of Gregor Hens’
Nicotine was recently published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Featuring an introduction by Will Self, the book combines a highly personal memoir with a cultural history of the controversial habit of smoking tobacco.
Gregor Hens
- Gregor Hens, born in 1965 in Cologne, is a German writer and translator. He has notably translated Will Self, Jonathan Lethem and George Packer into German. His previous fiction books are In diesem neuen Licht (‘In This New Light’, 2006) and Matta verlässt seine Kinder (‘Matta Leaves His Children’, 2004)
Jen Calleja
- Jen Calleja is a writer, literary translator from German, editor and musician. She is acting editor of New Books in German and editor of Anglo-German arts journal Verfreundungseffekt. She is translator in residence at the Austrian Cultural Forum London and columnist for literature in translation for The Quietus. Her debut poetry collection Serious Justice is forthcoming with Test Centre.
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