Festival Neue Literatur (FNL) brings six of the most important emerging and established German-language authors to New York City each year, where they join celebrated US writers in a series of conversations and readings. This year’s festival theme,
Queer as Volk, highlights new writing that explores questions of queerness and identity, featuring the writers
Antje Rávic Strubel and
Fabian Hischmann from Germany,
Jürgen Bauer and
Marlen Schachinger from Austria,
Zora del Buono and
Simon Foehling from Switzerland, and
Gareth Greenwell,
Francine Pose, and
Darryl Pinckney from the US. FNL 2017 is curated by
Peter Blackstock, Senior Editor at Grove Atlantic.
FNL is presented in collaboration with Deutsches Haus NYU, the German Book Office, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Pro Helvetia, the Consulate General of Switzerland, and the German Consulate General New York.
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