Isabel Bogdan: „Wohnverwandtschaften“

In the organizer's words:

A novel about a flat-sharing community in which four people of different ages live together for different reasons and come to realize that friends are sometimes better than family: Friends are sometimes the better family. In this lively and humorous novel, four very different people have their say, each of whom has to readjust their life plans in their own way. We discuss with Isabel Bogdan whether this functional flat share can become a family of choice.

Isabel Bogdan, born in Cologne in 1968, studied English and Japanese studies in Heidelberg and Tokyo. She has written numerous translations, including of Jane Gardam, Nick Hornby and Jonathan Safran Foer. Her first book, "Sachen machen", was published by Rowohlt in 2011, and she has also written short stories for anthologies. In 2006 she received the Hamburg Prize for Literary Translation and in 2011 the Prize for Literature. Her bestselling novel "Der Pfau" was published in 2016 and "Laufen" in 2019.

In collaboration with Kiepenheuer & Witsch.

Price information:

Admission: 15,- € / reduced 13,- €