Public Reading
Thursday 25.01.2018 7:30 PM | Saal
Admission: €8 / €6
Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen/ British Council Germany
Co-Operation
with Kerry Hudson
Part of the British Council Literature Seminar 2018:"Writing Gender: Sexuality, Feminism and Masculinity"
Opening this year's British Council Literature Seminar, the author Kerry Hudson will give a reading of her work, followed by a discussion with Seminar chair Bernardine Evaristo.
Following the reading there will be a reception, giving the audience a chance to come together more informally over a glass of wine or soft-drink.
Kerry Hudson
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Her first novel, TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE-CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA was published in 2012 by Chatto & Windus (Penguin Random House) and was the winner of the Scottish First Book Award while also being shortlisted for the Southbank Sky Arts Literature Award, Guardian First Book Award, Green Carnation Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Prize and the Polari First Book Award. Kerry’s second novel, THIRST, was published in 2014 by Chatto & Windus and won France’s most prestigious award for foreign fiction the Prix Femina Étranger. It was also shortlisted for the European Premio Strega in Italy. Her books are also available in the US (Penguin), France (Editions Philippe Rey), Italy (Minimum Fax) and Turkey. She is currently working on a non-fiction book, LOWBORN, and a series of columns for the Pool, which will take her back to the towns of her childhood as she investigates her own past and what it means to be poor in Britain today. |
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