FRANZ HOHLER & TONY MOCHAMA
Franz Hohler lives as an author and cabaret performer in Zürich-Oerlikon. He is the author of one-man programs and satirical programs for television and radio. He has written theater pieces, children's books, stories and novels. In 2002 he received the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, in 2005 the Art Prize of Zurich, in 2014 the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis. One of his most famous works is the "Totemügerli". His collection of witty short stories Der Stein (2011) features border-crossing between the realistic and the fantastic.
Tony Adam Mochama (born 9 May 1975) is a Kenyan poet, writer, author and a senior journalist at the Standard Media Group Kenya. He is a three-time winner of the Burt Awards for African Young Adult Literature and is also a recipient of Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. He is the Secretary General of PEN (Kenya), an association of writers and subsidiary of PEN International. He was a Kenyan delegate at the 82nd PEN Congress, Ourense Spain in 2016. He attended the summer program scholarship under the Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) to study creative writing at the Herzen University, Saint Petersburg, Russia in classes run by creative writers such as George Saunders. (Source: Wikipedia)
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