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Reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan
07.03.2022 at 19:00
A reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan, moderated by Jutta Himmelreich
A cooperation between the Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich e.V. and the Düren Kultur public library
registration: boell-haus@düren.de
Admission is free!
Faribā Vafī was born in 1962 in Tabriz, the capital of the province of East Azerbaijan in north-west Iran. She currently lives in Tehran and is one of Iran's most popular contemporary authors. Iranian critics place her among the top 10 modern writers in the country. She has been awarded the renowned Huschang Golschiri Prize and the Yalda Prize, and in 2017 she received the LiBeraturpreis for her work Tarlan.
Amir Hassan Cheheltan, born in Tehran in 1956, studied electrical engineering in England, took part in the Iraq war and published novels and short stories in Tehran. His novel "Tehran, Revolutionsstrasse" was published in 2009 as the world's first publication in German, followed by "Tehran, Apocalypse" and "Tehran, Stadt ohne Himmel". Most recently, C.H.Beck published his novels "The Calligrapher of Isfahan" (2015) and "The Circle of Literature Lovers" (2020), for which the author and translator received the International Literature Prize of the House of World Cultures in 2020.
