LeseLiterati
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in collaboration with
Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) welcomes you to
LeseLiterati, a Literary evening with rich culture and rich culture and international exchanges.
Writers
Christopher Kloeble (Germany) and
Chetan Bhagat, both out with new novels, discuss with
Shinie Antony the
impact of cities on their writing, their travels, as also the 'where' of their stories.
© Jens Oellermann
Christopher Kloeble is a German novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He studied at the German Creative Writing Program in Leipzig, and he has held teaching assignments and residencies in Germany, the US, UK, and India, among others. For his first novel Amongst Loners, he won the Jürgen Ponto Stiftung prize for best debut 2008. The third book, Almost Everything Very Fast, which Kloeble is currently adapting as a feature film, was published in English with Graywolf Press (USA).
His first film script Inclusion was nominated for the Prix Europa for Best Movie Script. His new novel, The Museum of the World, came out in Germany in 2020. Kloeble lives in Berlin and Delhi.
© Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat is the author of ten bestselling novels, which have sold over twelve million copies and have been translated into over twenty languages worldwide.
The New York Times has called him ‘the biggest selling author in India’s history’. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and Fast Company USA named him one of the 100 most creative people in business worldwide.
Many of Chetan’s books have been adapted into films and were major Bollywood blockbusters. He is also a Filmfare award-winning screenplay writer. Chetan writes columns for The Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar, which are among India’s most influential and widely read newspapers. He is also one of the country’s leading motivational speakers. He is active on various social media platforms, where his combined following runs into crores.
Chetan went to college at IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad, after which he worked in investment banking for a decade before quitting his job to become a full-time write.
© Shinie Antony
Shinie Antony has written short-story books Barefoot and Pregnant, The Orphanage For Words, and novels The Girl Who Couldn't Love and When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied. She has compiled the anthologies Why We Don’t Talk, An Unsuitable Woman and Boo. Co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, her story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia prize in 2002.
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