Author: Nora Gomringer
Moderation: Nhã Thuyên
In her poems, Nora Gomringer raises big questions around small things The author will be together with translator Mrs. Chu Thi Thu Phuong.
In 25 poems, Nora Gomringer refutes the cliché of fashion as a mere pretense. Inevitably, fashion is connected with how we feel and how we are. Truth is always clad by many layers - linguistically sharp and yet carefully worded the poetess approaches the topic layer by layer.
Nhã Thuyên will moderate the book presentation. She is a lyricist and has co-founded "AJAR" with Kaitlin Rees, which is publishing and literary space and is intended as a cross-language project. Nhã's works have also been translated into English.
© Judith Kinitz 2017
Nora Gomringer (* 1980 in Neunkirchen) has published eight volumes of poetry as well as numerous essays and short stories. She was a lecturer in poetics in Koblenz, Kiel, Sheffield and Vienna. Through scholarships from the Goethe-Institut, she spent time in Helsinki, and Kyoto. Among other notable awards she received the Jacob Grimm Prize in 2011, the Joachim Ringelnatz prize for poetry in 2012 and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2015. She lives in Bamberg, where as director of the Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia she promotes artists of international origin on behalf of the Free State of Bavaria.
© Verlag Voland & Quist
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