Long Night of Literature 2013
A literary evening of contemporary writing in German, Long Night of Literature is jointly hosted by the German Book Office, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.

A literary evening of contemporary writing in German, Long Night of Literature is jointly hosted by the German Book Office, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. Moderated by the author Veena Venugopal, this event of prose and poetry includes conversations and readings from books by German and Swiss authors.

Friday 18 January 2013, 6 pm Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001

SCHEDULE
6:30 pm Welcome by Veena Venugopal
6:45 pm Live performance - Theresa Hahl
7:00 pm Dorothee Elmiger with Dr Rekha Kamath
7:45 pm Inka Parei with Dr Jyoti Sabharwal
8:30 pm Break
9:00 pm Katy Derbyshire with Akshay Pathak
9:30 pm Live performance - Theresa Hahl

The programme will be in German and English and is open to all.

THE AUTHORS

Dorothee Elmiger 
Dorothee Elmiger, born 1985 in Switzerland, studied at the Swiss Institute of Literature in Biel (Switzerland) as well as in Leipzig and Berlin. Her debut novel "Einladung an die Waghalsigen" (Invitation to the Bold of Heart) won several prizes, including the Aspekte Literature Prize 2010 for the best German debut prose. Dorothee Elmiger has published in several literary magazines and newspapers and was a resident fellow at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles in 2012. Dorothee Elmiger lives and works in Switzerland. Moderated by Dr Rekha Kamath,Professor, Centre for German Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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Katy Derbyshire
Katy Derbyshire is a London-born literary translator who has been in Berlin since 1996. She translates various contemporary German and Swiss writers, including Inka Parei and Dorothee Elmiger, Clemens Meyer, Simon Urban, Helene Hegemann, Sibylle Lewitscharoff and Tilman Rammstedt. Katy writes a blog about German- language literature by the name of love german books. Moderated by Akshay Pathak, reader, writer, translator and theatre enthusiast
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MODERATOR FOR THE EVENING Veena Venugopal is an MBA from S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, who gave up a promising career in mergers and acquisitions to be a poorly paid journalist. She is the author of Would You Like Some Bread With that Book? a collection of 14 essays on books and reading published by Yoda Press in May 2012. Her next book will be published by Penguin in 2014. She lives in Delhi.