Contemporary German Literature: Helene Bukowski's “Milk Teeth”
When: January 24, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
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The book: Milk Teeth
In Helene Bukowski’s debut novel Milk Teeth, a bleak future is described: Without rain, the countryside has dried up, it is hot and lacks everything. The protagonists live in isolation when suddenly a strange child appears and causes unrest among the inhabitants.
Helene Bukowski, born in 1993 in Berlin, convinces with a debut that shifts the major threats of our present into a bleak future. It's about climate change, as well as the desire to shut oneself off from everything foreign, to block out everything threatening. But what if evil already dwells in the long known? How do people survive in this post-apocalyptic landscape at the edge of the world?
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Helene Bukowski, born in Berlin in 1993, now lives back in her native city. She studied at the Hildesheim Literature Institute and, in addition to writing, also leads creative writing courses and workshops. In 2019, her debut novel Milk Teeth (Milchzähne) was published, for which she was nominated for the Mara Cassens Prize, the Rauriser Literature Prize and the Kranichsteiner Literature Promotion Prize, among others. The novel has been translated into French and English, and a film adaptation is in preparation. Her second novel, Die Kriegerin (in English The Warrior), was published in 2022 and has been nominated for the LiteraTour Nord.
Rishi Majumder is the co-Founder of the creative agency Oijo and the Indian History Collective, a not for profit history knowledge project. He has been a journalist and editor with publications like Mumbai Mirror, Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice India. His work spans a gamut of subjects and genres such as politics, culture, investigative journalism, longform narratives and interviews for video and print.
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