3.00 - 4.00 PM on Saturday, 22 October
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything: The Solitude of Secrets
A Talk to celebrate the launch of the translation into Thai of Daniela Krien’s novel|Have you ever had a secret that you’ve never dared share with another? Join us for a discussion with Lakkana Punwichai (Kam Phaka), Uruda Covin, and Atthaphon Techaphan
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Mahasamut Library and Cafe, Chiangmai
- Language Thai
- Price Free admission
In the discussion, we’ll talk about forbidden relationships and secrets that are locked away and forever lost in solitude, to be acknowledged by neither individuals, communities nor the wider society.
The discussion will be in Thai. There is no admission fee for the event.
Uruda Covin grew up in Chiang Rai and is now an accomplished cook in private and a professional writer in public. Her writing ranges over novels, short stories, and magazine commentary, though she is best-known for the novels ‘The Sweetness of Tears’ and ‘The Butterfly in the Swamp’.
Atthaphon Techaphan is a lecturer of German language and literature at Chiang Mai University. His interests are centered on modern German literature, in particular that written in the 70s and 80s.
Join our next discussion on October 28, at MAIELIE, Khon Kaen >> Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything: Together across the Wall
The 2011 publication of ‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’ marked the end of Daniela Krien’s journey from her background in Leipzig to the centre of the German literary world. Indeed, the novel’s popularity and high regard is such that it has now been translated into fifteen different languages.
‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’ is set against the run-up to German reunification in the summer of 1990. The books tells the story of seventeen-year-old Maria, who likes to read, and her life in a village in East Germany. Her interior world is also a vault of secrets sealed off from the society around her and open only to us, the readers.
‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’
Author: Daniela Krien
Translator: Piyakal Sinprasert
Publisher: Library House
ISBN: 9786168123850
The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.
More about the book and the author
The discussion will be in Thai. There is no admission fee for the event.
About the speakers
Lakkana Punwichai (Kam Phaka) is a well-known writer, critic, and commentator. Kam Phaka is especially interested in feminism and social movements.Uruda Covin grew up in Chiang Rai and is now an accomplished cook in private and a professional writer in public. Her writing ranges over novels, short stories, and magazine commentary, though she is best-known for the novels ‘The Sweetness of Tears’ and ‘The Butterfly in the Swamp’.
Atthaphon Techaphan is a lecturer of German language and literature at Chiang Mai University. His interests are centered on modern German literature, in particular that written in the 70s and 80s.
Join our next discussion on October 28, at MAIELIE, Khon Kaen >> Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything: Together across the Wall
The 2011 publication of ‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’ marked the end of Daniela Krien’s journey from her background in Leipzig to the centre of the German literary world. Indeed, the novel’s popularity and high regard is such that it has now been translated into fifteen different languages.
‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’ is set against the run-up to German reunification in the summer of 1990. The books tells the story of seventeen-year-old Maria, who likes to read, and her life in a village in East Germany. Her interior world is also a vault of secrets sealed off from the society around her and open only to us, the readers.
‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’
Author: Daniela Krien
Translator: Piyakal Sinprasert
Publisher: Library House
ISBN: 9786168123850
The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.
More about the book and the author
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Mahasamut Library and Cafe, Chiangmai
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