Christoph Peters
German author Christoph Peters will read his short story Schwarzmilane and chapter 6 of his novel Das Tuch der Nacht (The Fabric of Night), followed by audience interaction.
Curriculum Vitae:
Christoph Peters, born in 1966, is the author of several novels and short stories. He studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and worked in different fields, After his debut novel “City Country River” (1999) and a collection of short stories, in 2003, the novel “The Fabric of Night” that was also his first novel to be published in English . It is the story of a murder in Istanbul told by two different narrators, oscillating in this way between illusion and reality. In 2006 he published the novel “A Chamber in the House of War”, set in Egypt in 1993, about the lives and attitudes of a German convert to Islam who turned extremist and a German diplomat in Egypt, culminating in their meetings and conversations. Travel experiences have shaped his literature, in the early nineties Peters travelled to Turkey and Egypt where he pursued his interest into Islamic and especially Sufi culture, whereas other novels are set in a German-Japanese context, among them “Mitsuko´s Restaurant” (2009) and his latest novel “The Arm of the Octopus” (2015).
Christoph Peters has received the Aspekte-Literaturpreis in 1999, the Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis in 2004, the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2009 and the Hölderlinpreis in 2016. In 2015 Christoph Peters was writer-in-residence in the German Cultural Academy of Tarabya in Istanbul. His books are translated into Arabic, French, Danish, Dutch, Chinese and English. He now lives with his family in Berlin, it is his first visit to India.
In collaboration with Department of German, University of Mumbai
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