| Time: | March 8, 2019, 7:00 p.m. (CET) |
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| Venue: | Italienisches Kulturinstitut Stuttgart Kolbstr. 6 70178 Stuttgart |
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To write means to reveal oneself, to jeopardize one’s own identity and to regain it through the hall of mirrors that is fiction and reality. Finding the right language for a story is a risky undertaking; but the question is, how much more risky is it when one chooses not to write in one’s native tongue? What challenges does this bring with it on the long road from forming the first word on an empty page, to a printed novel pressed between its covers? The two authors will be answering these and many other questions.
Kaha Mohamed Aden was born in Mogadischu in 1966. She was 20 years old when her family left Somalia and eventually settled in Pavia. Sie studied economic science, before discovering her passion for writing and theater.
Luba Goldberg-Kuznetsova was born in Saint Petersburg in 1982. At nineteen she left her home country with her mother and moved to Germany. She studied philosophy and modern Japan, together with literary writing.
Both authors love literature and have a passion for writing. And both are taking their first literary steps in a language that is not their native tongue, but that nevertheless symbolizes a new sense of home.
This event will be held in Italian and German.
To register please call: 0711 16 281 19
This event is organized by the Italian Center at the University of Stuttgart’s IZKT and the Italienischen Kulturinstitut Stuttgart in cooperation with the association “Freunde des Italienischen Kulturinstituts Stuttgart e.V.”