Conversations. Encounters across cultures. Intense. Investigative. Probing. Wanting to know. Discovering along with the 'subject' of your questioning that the balance has shifted and you yourself are under a desperately interested microscope. Benign, but microscope, nevertheless. You cannot simply call this an encounter or an interview. It appears to take on the shape of a conversation amongst equals. The scales tip again and you find yourself becoming an acolyte one moment and a teacher the next. Sometimes both in an extremely delicate moment of clarity. What tremendous freedom. What tremendous responsibility. Manipulation or malleability?
A new series of online live streamings that will allow people of intellectual rigour to engage with each other in the real world and create a corpus of contemporary political, philosophical, literary and socially concerned conversations.
An evening of conversation between two writers
Inka Parei
Inka Parei, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1967, has lived in Berlin since 1987. She has published short stories, as well as the novels "Die Schattenboxerin" (1999), "Was Dunkelheit war" (2005) and "Die Kältezentrale" (2011). Her works have been translated into numerous languages and have received numerous awards, including the Hans Erich Nossack Förderpreis, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, and a fellowship at New York University. She is currently a visiting professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and is working on a 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’.
This programme is open to all and will be live- telecasted on the
Facebook page of the Goethe-Institut Kolkata on the scheduled date and time.
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