FOOL’s JOURNEY or How I chased after Happiness just to find it waiting for me (Das Glück sieht immer anders aus) by Milena Moser, Switzerland
The Consulate General of Switzerland in Mumbai together with the Embassy of Switzerland in India and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Bangalore, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institutes and University partners, have organized a special virtual book reading of “FOOL'S JOURNEY or How I Chased After Happiness Just to Find It Waiting for Me” (Original Title: Das Glück sieht immer anders aus) in German and in English by Milena Moser, the Swiss author herself. The reading will be followed by a conversation with Jayashree Joshi, Director, Library of Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai.
The programme will also include Milena conducting an exclusive creative writing workshop for students, teachers and lovers of the German language “Das Leben schreiben, das Schreiben leben”. She will share some tips and tricks to creative writing from her own experiences through some fun exercises.
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(Registration is mandatory for this programme)
About the author
Milena Moser is one of Switzerland’s well-known writers. She has authored over 20 books, novels, short stories and memoirs. They have been translated in nine European languages and three of her novels were even adapted for the screen. She has written radio plays, several essays, and a weekly column for eight years. However, her success was not immediate: After starting to write seriously in Paris in the 1980s, she collected rejection letters for six years before her friends published her first three books themselves. Even her first novel, “The Cleaning Lady’s Island” (Die Putzfraueninsel), that later sold over 250’000 copies, was self-published. She also conducts Creative Writing workshops for experienced writers of all genres as well as for absolute beginners. Born in 1963 in Zurich, she now lives in San Francisco.
The program has been organized within the framework of the ‘Swiss It!’ initiative.
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