Germany @ Home: Oona Frawley and Lilian Loke

Reading

Thu, 10.05.2018
7:00 PM - 21:30

Germany@Home presents German writer Lilian Loke and Irish writer Oona Frawley this May.

Lilian Loke, born in 1985, studied English literature, art history, and German literature and lives in Munich.
Her debut Gold in the Streets appeared in 2015 and was awarded the Munich Tukan Prize, the Literature Scholarship of the City of Munich, the Scholarship of the Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung and of the Literary Colloquium Berlin. She has been a member of the PEN-Center Germany since 2016.
Her new book, Auster und Klinge, was published in February this year.

Oona Frawley was born in New York in 1972 to Irish parents and has lived in Ireland full-time since completing her Ph.D. in Irish literature in New York. She has taught at the City University of New York, University College Dublin, Queen's University, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. She currently lectures at the Irish National University, Maynooth. Her publications include Irish Pastoral: Nostalgia and 20th Century Irish Literature (2005), New Dubliners (2005), Selected Essays of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (2005), and A New & Complex Sensation: Essays on Joyce's Dubliners (2004). Her first novel, Flight, was published in April 2014 by Tramp Press.

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