Nichts davon stimmt, aber alles ist wahr

Larissa Boehning will read from her latest book “Nichts davon stimmt, aber alles ist wahr” (‘None of It’s Right, But It’s All True’) and the reading session will be followed by a moderated sharing session with Xiong Yu Qun (Vice president Guangdong Province Author Association).

 “Nichts davon stimmt, aber alles ist wahr” is a deceptively simple novel with a gripping plot. The narrative is cleverly layered around the kernel of one character’s story with each protagonist adding their own fiction to the truth.



Media reviews:
„A novel about desire and barrier between generations. To present truth in Larissa Boehning’s novelistic analysis is more important than to please the reader.” Deutschlandradio Kultur

Author
Larissa Boehning was born in 1971, lives in Berlin and works as a graphic designer, lecturer and freelance writer. Her debut novel "Lichte Stoffe"  (‘Light Materials,’ 2007) was longlisted for the German Book Prize and received the city of Pinneberg’s Culture Prize and the Mara-Cassens Prize for best debut novel in 2007. Her last book was "Das Glück der Zikaden" (‘The Song of the Cicadas’).

Awards
1993 Winner of Heinrich-Heine-House Literature Competition in Lüneburg
2000 Winner of Short Story Competition organized by Step 21 and JETZT-Magazin of the Süddeutschen Zeitung
2002 Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize for the story „Stummer Fisch, geliebter“
2007 Nomination for the longlist of Deutschen Buchpreis for „Lichte Stoffe“
2007 „Lichte Stoffe“ received the Hamburg Literature House’s Mara-Cassens-Preis for the best German language debut novel
2008 Kreis Pinneberg Culturual Award for the young generation
 
Previous works include
Schwalbensommer (‘A Swallow’s Summer’),  Short Stories (2003)
Lichte Stoffe (‘Light Materials’), Novel (2007);
Das Glück der Zikaden (‘The Song of the Cicadas‘), Novel (2011)
Nichts davon stimmt aber alles ist wahr (‘None of It’s Right, But It’s All True’), Novel (2014)