Book City Institute in Tehran has organized a session in German for discussing contemporary literature in German-speaking countries on Tuesday.
The meeting will be attended by three guests, including writer and translator Michael Kleeberg from Germany, novelist and journalist Urs Mannhart from Switzerland and writer, translator and researcher Cornelia Travnicek from Austria, Honaronline reported.
The three invitees will read out excerpts from one of their books to the enthusiasts.
Kleeberg, 58, studied political science and modern history at the University of Hamburg and visual communications at the Kunsthochschule, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. He is currently based in Berlin and is a full-time writer and translator from English and French.
As a writer, Mannhart, 42, caused a stir with his 2004 debut novel “Lynx”; the book became a bestseller and is now in its fourth edition.
Travnicek, 31, studied sinology and is at the University of Vienna and works part-time as a researcher for VRVis, Austria’s leading research center in the field of visualization and computer graphics. Some of her work has been translated in to English, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Serbian.
The upcoming meeting will be open to all German-language fans. The venue is at 3rd Alley, Bokharest Street on Shahid Beheshti Avenue.
