For the Lahore Literature Festival 2017 the Goethe-Institut Pakistan has selected German novelist
Christoph Peters who was nominated for the German Book Prize.
His books are translated into Arabic, French, Danish, Dutch, Chinese and English. He has visited Pakistan three times in 2016 and is working on stories and a novel about Pakistan.
Christoph Peters, born 1966, is the author of several novels and short stories. Travel experiences has shaped his literature, in the early nineties Peters travelled to Turkey and Egypt where he pursued his interest into Islamic and especially Sufi culture, whereas other novels are set in a German-Japanese context, among them “Mitsuko´s Restaurant” (2009) and his latest novel “The Arm of the Octopus” (2015). Among many awards Peters has received the Aspekte-Literaturpreis in 1999, the Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis in 2004, the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2009 and the Hölderlinpreis in 2016. In 2015 Christoph Peters was writer-in-residence in the German Cultural Academy of Tarabya in Istanbul.
A conversation with Bilal Tanweer about his literary work and his experience of several visits to Pakistan
Back
