From Germany to Chicago: New Voices in Fiction
Guild Complex, Goethe-Institute Chicago
Three award-winning young German authors, who have been in the forefront of literary discoveries, will be joined by two significant Chicago novelists for an evening of fiction, jazz and discussion
Three award-winning young German authors, who have been in the forefront of literary discoveries, will be joined by two significant Chicago novelists for an evening of fiction, jazz and discussion.
Julia Franck was born in East Berlin in 1970. She has written for newspapers and radio and has translated short stories from English into German. Her first prose publication, Der neue Koch, was published in 1997; her second, Liebediener, was published in 1999. Georg Klein’s first novel Libidissi was hailed as one of the most important publications of 1998 and is currently being translated into various languages. In November1999 he received the coveted Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau. Arnold Stadler Has published five novels and a poetry collection. He studied theology and German Literature and published his first literary work in 1986. Stadler’s stories take place in the remote villages of his childhood. Don De Grazia is the author of American Skin, first published in England by Jonathan Cape, and forthcoming from Scribner (U.S.) this month. A former factory worker, bouncer and soldier, De Grazia is currently a professor of Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Sandra Jackson-Opoku is an award-winning journalist, screenwriter and novelist. Her first novel, The River Where Blood Is Born, won the 1997 American Library Association’s Black Caucus Award for best fiction. She teaches fiction writing at Columbia College Chicago.Performers
Julia Franck, Georg Klein, Arnold Stadler, Don De grazia and Sandra Jackson-Opoku,
Music by The Jeb Bishop Duo