Date: 7 December 2011, from 6pm
Venue: George Steiner Seminar Room, Lock Keepers Cottage,
Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Directions:
www.qmul.ac.uk/cagcr/events/lcc.shtml
The Department of German, in cooperation with the Swiss Embassy, will be hosting a reading by the distinguished Swiss writer Friederike Kretzen. The reading will be in German and will last approximately one hour. It will be followed by a wine reception. All are welcome.
Friederike Kretzen, born in 1957 in Leverkusen, Germany, has been living in Basle, Switzerland, since 1983. She is a novelist and university teacher.
After studying sociology she worked as a dramaturg and then as a lecturer in literature and creative writing, e.g. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the Bern University of Arts.
Among her many novels are: “Die Souffleuse” (1989), “Ihr blöden Weiber” (1993) “Indiander” (1996), “Übungen zu einem Aufstand” (2002) or “Weisses Album” (2007).
Friederike Kretzen has won several prizes, such as the «Deutsche[r] Kritikerpreis für Literatur» in 1999 or the «Arno-Schmidt Stipendium» in 2002.
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