An evening of conversation between Monica Cantieni and Sandip Roy
Monica Cantieni
Monica Cantieni, born 1965 in Thalwil, Switzerland, has received various literary grants and awards for her short stories. With her debut novel
Grünschnabel she was the finalist for the Swiss Book Awards 2011. The translation of the same,
The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons was nominated for the First Book Award Edinburgh 2015. Among her other published works is
Hieronymus’ Kinder as well as a large number of short stories in anthologies. Latest publications: 2020,
Schwellenzeit, 44 authors write during Corona, with A.L. Kennedy, T.C. Boyle, and Swiss authors Dorothee Elmiger and Peter Stamm, among others. 2020, Anthology,
Voll im Wind with Franz Hohler. Monica Cantieni is currently working on her new novel.
Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy is a writer, radio host and columnist in Kolkata. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Times of India, Firstpost and other publications. His audio dispatch from Kolkata airs weekly on public radio in San Francisco. He is a columnist for Mint Lounge and hosts the Sandip Roy Show on Audio Express. His award-winning first novel is ‘Don’t Let Him Know’.
The conversation was broadcast live on the Facebook page of the Goethe-Institut Kolkata on 16.04.2021. You can find the recording of the conversation at:
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Enjoy a reading of excerpts from the book ‘THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GOOD REASONS’ by Monica Cantieni performed by the Tillotama Shome in English.
© Tillotama Shome
Actress
Tillotama Shome has created a repertoire of exceptional performances in critically acclaimed award winning films both international and national. She is an extraordinary actress who navigates between cultures and languages effortlessly. Her debut as Alice in Mira Nair’s
Monsoon Wedding won hearts world over and was applauded by The New York Magazine as something that has “a moonstruck quality right out of A Midsummer Nights Dream”. A maverick at heart, she quit films, to do a second masters from New York University in Educational Theatre and the received the prestigious INLAKS scholarship for it. She went on to work as a teaching artist in New York, exploring issues of violence and sexuality, in prison and in domestic violence shelters. She returned to films four years later and since then has done more than 35 films in various languages. Tillotama’s performance as a girl who is raised as a boy in
Qissa by Anup Singh won her awards and accolades.
The Variety described her work as a “fearless performance combines gender assumptions so seamlessly that the border between male and female seems to fade into irrelevance.”
Enjoy a reading of an excerpt from the book THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GOOD REASONS’ (Grünschnabel) by Monica Cantieni performed by the author herself in German.
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