Readings and Discussion
New Writing in German

with Authors from Austria and Germany

Sat, 28.05.2016
4:00 PM City Wall Space

For the third time contemporary German literature is invited for an evening to the International Literature Festival Dublin. For the event New Writing in German Larissa Boehning (Germany) and the Austrian-American writer Ann Cotten will read from their texts on 28th May. Afterwards the audience has the chance to engage in a discussion with the two authors, who are currently taking the literary scene by storm.

The writer Larissa Boehning will read from her debut collection of stories Schwalbensommer (2003) (Swallow Summer), translated by Lyn Marven, which was already internationally celebrated for the dazzling intensity of her prose style.  Critics were immediately amazed by the way her virtuoso literary abilities allowed her to make the small disasters that occur in everyday life appear continually interesting and relevant. Since her novel Lichte Stoffe (2007), for which she was shortlisted for the German Book Prize, Larissa Boehning ranges among the top writers in the German-speaking literature scene. Her latest publication is the novel Nichts davon stimmt, aber alles ist wahr (2014). She was born in Wiesbaden in 1971 and grew up in the suburbs of Hamburg. She studied cultural studies, philosophy and art history in Hamburg and Berlin.
 

Since her debut collection Fremdwörterbuchsonette (2007), Ann Cotten emerged as one of the leading poets in the German-speaking world. Her latest collection in English I, Coleoptile (2010) is a beautifully crafted collaboration with artist Kerstin Cmelka on the theme of ‚emergence‘. She was awarded numerous prizes, for instance the Klopstock Prize (2015) as well as the Ernst-Bloch-Förderpreis (2015). Moreover, in 2014 she was selected by a jury in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut for the scholarship of the Villa Kamogawa and spent three months in the artist residency next to river Kamo. Ann Cotten was born in Iowa in 1982, but grew up in Vienna. Today she lives in Berlin and Vienna.

Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland and the Austrian Embassy Dublin