in the framework of Pune International Literary Festival 2022
Pune city’s first and the only free festival of English literature, the Pune International Literary Festival (PILF), will be held from December 02nd to 04th. This is the 10th edition of the festival. Dr. Manjiri Prabhu, the well-known novelist living in the city, is the founder and director of the festival. Goethe-Institut, MMB Pune, has been participating in the literary festival since 2014. This year the festival will be held 2 days offline and on the last day it will be online. This year GI MMB Pune has invited author for children and youth- Kathrin Rohmann. Ms. Rohmann will read selected text excerpts from her novel "Apple Cake & Baklava" (English translation of her German novel "Apfelkuchen & Baklava") on 03.12. at 11.15 am.
About the Book:
A wonderful story of losing and finding, of longing and hope, of friendship and arriving.
When 11-year-old Leila flees Syria with her brothers and mother, her father and grandmother remain behind. Leila only has a walnut from her grandmother's garden with her as a memento. It is a piece of home that she can take with her. It is all the worse for her when the nut disappears one day. Max, also 11 years old, grew up in a small town in Lower Saxony. At first, he doesn't understand what it means to have to flee his home. But he likes Leila and wants to get to know her. As he patiently helps her find her walnut, a friendship develops that can survive anything.
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About the author:
Kathrin Rohmann, born in 1967, actually wanted to be a stage designer or a journalist, but because of a large, beautiful dog, she first became a farmer, then an agricultural engineer and finally a mother of three children. Since 2008 she has been writing stories for children, published for example in magazines and on the radio. "Apple Cake And Baklava" is her heart project, which was developed within the framework of the “Academy for Children's Media” 2014/15 and awarded the Baumhaus / Boje Media Prize 2015. Kathrin Rohmann lives in the north of Hanover.
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