Born in Iran, emigrated to Paris and later to Germany, Pedro Kadivar lets us share his personal biography with his literary essay. There he deals with the topic of internal and external migration and also deals with the importance of migration for art, referring to numerous important figures in literary and art history, such as Dürer, Giorgione and Proust. On May 31st you have the chance to talk to Doerte Bischoff live at the KörberForum in Hamburg…

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Der Goethe und Hafis Verlag und die Röttgener Buchhandlung laden zum musikalischen Lyrikabend auf deutsch und persisch in Bonn - mit dabei ist auch unsere Autorin Pegah Ahmadi und ihr Gedichtband "Wucht", sowie ihre wunderbare Übersetzerin Jutta Himmelreich! Pegah Ahmadi wurde 1974 im Iran geboren, hat persische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft studiert und ist Lyrikerin, Übersetzerin und Literaturkritikerin und zählt zu den bekanntesten Gesichtern der iranischen Lyrikszene. 2009 kam sie nach Frankfurt, wo sie zum ersten Mal zensurfrei schreiben konnte, in den Iran ist…

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As part of the Bremer Buchpremieren, a series of events organized by the Bremer Literaturkontor and the Bremen City Library, we cordially invite you to a reading with Mahmood Falaki, who will read from his new novel Tödliche Fremde. The evening will be moderated by Jens-Ulrich Davids. Mahmood Falaki's new novel, the first he has written in German so far, tells the story of Nima, a 43-year-old teacher in Hamburg, who after decades sets out for his former homeland, Iran, when he is struck by the chaos in enough for his life…

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Suleman Taufiq Reading and discussion with Rasha Habbal, Adel Karasholi and Suleman Taufiq, moderated by Barbara Wahlster. “I am two worlds” – this is how Suleman Taufiq formulates the answer to frequently asked questions: What is home? What is arriving in a foreign country? Political persecution, war, the hope of finding a new home and of security drives people away from where they live. Or curiosity and love for another culture. As varied or compelling as the reasons for…

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Touched and inspired by the bilingual volume of poetry Unter dem Schnee by the poet Inge Buck, translated into Persian by Madjid Mohit, the Iranian musician and composer Elshan Ghasimi has created her own compositions. She has translated the poetic world of images, the rhythms and metaphors into a congenial musical language on the Persian string instrument tar. A poetic dialogue between poetry and music, between Orient and Occident, between the poems by Inge Buck and the musical interpretations by Elshan Ghasimi: "The sounds come to me when I hear them…

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