In Conversation with James Runcie
Jenny Erpenbeck has been making waves in Europe, leading her to be described as 'the most brilliant European writer of my generation' (Neel Mukherjee, Irish Times). Join her as she discusses her life and work.
Jenny Erpenbeck's last novel,
The End of Days, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015, and her latest book
Go, Went, Gone is a German bestseller.
Go, Went, Gone considers the contemporary refugee crisis and our responsibility in its creation through the touching portrait of an elderly Berlin professor.
This is a chance to hear the writer and opera director reading from her work and in conversation with
James Runcie, Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4 and author and director of
The Grantchester Mysteries, which is now a successful ITV series (
Grantchester).
'[An] absolute must-read.' (Arifa Akbar on
The End of Days, The Independent)
'Reading Erpenbeck is like falling under hypnosis.' (The Guardian)
Enjoy food and drink purchased from the Knowledge Centre Bar from 18.00 and after the event until the Bar closes at 10pm.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
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