The author Salem Khalfani reads from his novel “Flying Cats”. In this he reports on a six-story building in a German city. The characters are closely intertwined despite their coincidental connections. Ms. Habel cannot detach herself from the memory of her lost cat. She has been looking for her continuously for many years and accuses Josef Bahden of hiding her cat.
The article "Iranian Literature in Times of Uprising - The Voice of Women" by Gerrit Wustmann was published yesterday:
The protests against the Iranian regime, which have been going on for months, are mainly driven by young women. The literature also reveals why this is so. Gerrit Wustmann presents books by Iranian authors.
The special edition of the "World Receiver" leaderboard, published in the context of the ongoing protests in Iran, includes two of our titles among the reading recommendations!
A reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan, moderated by Jutta Himmelreich A cooperation between 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 prestigious Huschang Golschiri Prize and the Yalda Prize, as well as in 2017
Finally our journeys into literature - Iranian evenings can now take place for the third time - in digital format!
We would like to thank the virtual House of Literature Bremen for the great cooperation and also the Bremer
Literaturkontor, the Bremen Literature Foundation and the Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for their support!
All events take place via Zoom. The links to participate can be found on our website and Facebook page and are active from 15 minutes before the start of the event.
We look forward to your visit!
Finally the time has come! The Iranian evenings, which we had to postpone twice last year, can finally be held! From February 13th to 28th, 2021 we offer you a series of online and face-to-face events on the topics of Iran, Iranian literature and culture, Persian poetry and translations. We are also particularly pleased that some of our authors and translators will be there to answer our questions... You can find the complete program here! If you are already registered for a specific event
The Iranian community is currently running the project "My Values - Your Values - Our Values", which aims to create a dialogue between migrants and non-migrants. As part of this project, the "Liter(IR)ania" talks on contemporary Iranian literature will take place. We are pleased that authors from our publishing house also took part. The conversations can be listened to as a podcast: Kurt Scharf spoke here about his newly published anthology "Stop in the night until the wine" with the most beautiful Persian poetry from the twentieth century
