Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation: Ulrike Almut Sandig and Karen Leeder
27th February 2015, 5pm-7pm
Senate Chamber, Trent Building, University of Nottingham
Admission free.
This event at the University of Nottingham features the German poet Ulrike Almut Sandig in conversation with her translator, Dr Karen Leeder (University of Oxford). It will be chaired by Dr Heike Bartel (University of Nottingham) with a contribution from Charlotte Ryland (New Books in German). All welcome!
Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in Großenhain (GDR) and now lives in Berlin and Leipzig. She started publishing her poetry by pasting poems onto lamp posts in Leipzig and spreading them on flyers and free post cards. To date she has published three volumes of poetry: Zunder (2005/2009), Streumen (2007), Dickicht (2011), and two prose books: Flamingos (2010) and the forthcoming Buch gegen das Verschwinden (February 2015). Other publications include radio plays and audio-books of poetry and pop music (http://ulrike-almut-sandig.de/). She will be visiting the UK as part of the London-based Poet in the City project (http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/perspectives-on-poetry-ulrike-sandig/).
Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow and Tutor at New College, Oxford. She has published widely on modern German literature and culture, especially poetry. She is a prize-winning translator of contemporary German poetry into English and currently TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the Southbank Centre, London.
'Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation' is a series run by the IMLR in conjunction with the University of Nottingham.
This event is part of a two-day symposium on the works of Ulrike Almut Sandig at the University of Nottingham, 26.-27.2.2015, including a reading by the author, a translation workshop with Ulrike Almut Sandig and Karen Leeder and research papers. Limited places are available for the workshop.
For further information on this event or the translation workshop, please contact Nicola Thomas ([log in to unmask]) or Lauren Selfe ([log in to unmask]).
Kind regards,
Nicola Thomas
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies,
University of Nottingham,
University Park, Trent Building, B59
Nottingham NG7 2RD
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