Tamara Bach and Michael Sieben have written sensitive works about the difficulties of growing up and the immense value of friendship.
Translators Le Hong Hoa and Le Quang will present the books.
Tamaras Bach's "Vierzehn" plays on a single day: on the first day of school after the summer holidays. Beh is fourteen and has been ill for the last two weeks of school. She could not go on holiday with the others and did not see her friends for eight weeks. Beh was only at home. But there is more that the friends do not know about, and that she has to deal with on her own.
Michael Seven's "Ponderosa" is the name of the secret retreat of three friends, a deserted hut on the edge of the settlement. There, Kris, Josie and Yuri meet. They talk, smoke and stare into the sky. One day Josie's neighbor disappears. The three friends are investigating.
Based on Tamara Bach's "Fourteen" and Michael Sieben's "Ponderosa", the translators Le Quang and Le Hong Hoa recreate the feeling of growing up and show the dreams of youth.
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Le Hong Hoa studied German and foreign trade in Hanoi and works at the German Embassy in Hanoi. She is also working as a translator and has, inter alia, Pernilla Stalfelts "Ich mach dich platt! Das Kinderbuch von der Gewalt" transferred into Vietnamese.
Among others,
Le Quang has translated „Die Söhne der großen Bärin“ by Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, „Conni und der verschwundene Hund“ by Julia Böhme, „Yoko - - mein ganz besonderer Freund“ by Knister.
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Tamara Bach (* 1976) studied German and English in Berlin. She writes youth plays and scripts for television. Her debut novel "Marsmädchen" won the German Youth Literature Prize and the Oldenburger Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis. "Vierzehn" was nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize in two categories.
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Michael Sieben (* 1977) studied economics in Mainz, Cologne and Paris. He lives with his family in Berlin. "Ponderosa" is his debut novel. In 2017 he received the Kranichsteiner Youth Literature Scholarship.
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