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Märchenzauber im Advent - Navidad en Perú
Lisa Kalt
Museum Kloster Muri
Muri AG

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Radio Lotar - Szenische Lesung
Roman Horak, Philipp Schenker
Altes Spital Solothurn
Solothurn

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08-12-2024
Krimitag 2024
Matthias Beland, Regine Frei, Susanne Mathies, Ste…
La Couronne Hotel Restaurant
Solothurn

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08-12-2024
Märlitheater - Pinocchio
Debi Althuser, Beat Gärtner, Jeremy Müller & Giann…
Millers
Zürich

Journal

Mitteilung 2024-07-12 [«Topshelf Night» Schloss Lenzburg]: Eine Sommernacht zwischen Lichtern und Stars, die ganz der Literatur und dem Lesen gehört! Und Bookstagram! Und BookTok!

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Mitteilung 2024-06-26 [Bachmann-Preis]: Statt Fussball 3 Tage lang Literatur gucken: Heute starten die diesjährigen «Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur».

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Mitteilung 2024-06-24 [Pro Litteris Preis 24 – Sasha Filipenko & Maud Mabillard]: ProLitteris verleiht zwei Preise in der Sparte Literatur an Sasha Filipenko und Maud Mabillard.

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Mitteilung 2024-06-21 [Literaturfestival Zürich]: Nicht verpassen: Vom 8.-14.7.24 steigt wieder das Literaturfestival Zürich.

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Mitteilung 2024-06-17 [Stiftung Lydia Eymann Literaturstipendium]: Bis 30.6.24 bewerben fürs Stipendium der Lydia Eymann Stiftung.

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Mitteilung 2024-06-11 [Markus Bundi «Wilde Tiere»]: Beat Mazenauer bespricht «Wilde Tiere» von Markus Bundi für Viceversaliteratur.ch.

Reading tip

Carmen Stephan, It's all true: Guided by stars, four men set sail from north-east Brazil to see their president. Sixty-one days later they arrive as heroes. Orson Welles plans a film about their journey, but one of the four is swept overboard during filming and disappears. «It’s All True» is an understated but complex novella based on real-life events, taking its title from Orson Welles’ unfinished film. Carmen Stephan’s novella is a beautiful, pensive book with shades of the Old Man and the Sea. The precise yet dream-like writing explores familiar ideas about truth and fiction in a striking and memorable way. Clearly influenced by magic realism and with a pleasing sense of mystery, the novella is full of vivid turns of phrase and striking similes. It’s All True is a philosophical, reflective book, which delights in small descriptive details. The tone is calm, wistful and uncynical – reminiscent of Peter Stamm’s writing – and the narrative’s open, ingenuous style makes for a delightfully heady reading experience. (Recommended by New Books in German, 43/2018)

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Fabio Pusterla, Le cose senza storia: There is no english translation of this title. to read the italian version of the reading tip.

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Urs Widmer, Reise an den Rand des Universums: «No author in his right mind writes an autobiography». Against the fear that this would be the end of one’s material it helps to know that a narration of one’s life always invents a life from memories. Urs Widmer proves this in a playfully ironic and at the same time melancholic recount of his youth during which almost everything happens to him by sheer luck or misfortune. Satirising the species he starts with his conception which he invents with the same relish he describes his path to literature: all the way from being a toddler and hearing the clattering of his father’s typewriter to the moment in which his own typewriter starts writing on its own. (Swiss Literature Jury, transl. by Anja Hälg)

New releases

Martin Cabalzar: Lumnezia – Flurnamen und Sagen, Geschichte und Kultur. Somedia Buchverlag.

New releases

Joseph Deiss: Brüche - Plädoyer für eine Dynamik des Friedens. Versus.

News

AdS Annonces RSS: Aufenthaltsstipendium Niederösterreich 2025

AdS Annonces RSS: Der Chrysalide – Binding Förderpreis für Literatur 2024 geht an Louisa Merten

AdS Annonces RSS: Pro Helvetia: Praktikum Literatur für 6 bis 9 Monate

AdS Annonces RSS: CEATL: Europäisches Treffen der literarischen Übersetzer*innen in Straßburg, 3.-4. Oktober

AdS Annonces RSS: Medienmitteilung der Taskforce Culture: Kulturbotschaft: Kultur statt Sparen!

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