Anne-Marie Kenessey at Bangalore Literature Festival

Swiss poet Anne-Marie Kenessey has been invited by the Bangalore Literature Festival.

Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with 
Bangalore Literature Festival presents 
Swiss poet Anne-Marie Kenessey 

When: Wednesday 5 Dec 2015 at 12:30 pm
Venue: Hotel Royal Orchid, Near KGA, Bangalore
Entry: Festival rules apply
Session: War & Peace - In Verse: Anne-Marie Kenessey, Mani Rao, Neal Hall and Per Bloch

About the poet:
Anne-Marie Kenessey is a Swiss poet based in Zurich. Her German poems have been published in various literary magazines, amongst others, SpracheimtechnischenZeitalter no. 190 (Berlin, Germany), Wespennest no. 156 and no. 164 (Vienna, Austria, August 2009 and May 2013), poet no. 14 (Leipzig, Germany, March 2013) and allmende no. 88 (Karlsruhe, Germany, December 2011), in the anthology Jahrbuch der Lyrik no. 30 (Munich, 2015) and in the Swiss national newspaper Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich, December 2012).

Anne-Marie's first book, the poetry collection "Im Fossil verstecktsich das Seepferdvordir" (Edition Isele, 2012), received the award of the Canton of Zurich in July 2012. With a selection of new poems she won the Munich poetry prize in December 2012. She has been invited for readings by Literaturwerkstatt Berlin in 2013, as one of the four most important German poetry debut works of the year 2012, by LiteraturhausNÖ, Krems, Austria in 2014 and by Leukerbad International Literary Festival in 2015. 

Anne-Marie's poems have been translated to Hungarian by Hungarian writer GyörgyDalos and have appeared in the cultural magazine Magyar LettreInternationale, Budapest, August 2015. Since 2009 she is editor of the Swiss literary magazine orte. Her translations of French poems and short prose into German have been published in it. She has language skills in German (native), English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Hungarian andholds a Master of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Zurich. From 2000 - 2014 she worked as a full time employee in the private sector. Since 2015 she is working as an independent writer.

More on the poet at 
www.edition-isele.de/shopersatz/index.php?aktion=detail&id=426 
literaturfestival.ch/wwkd15/deutsch/autorinnen-und-autoren.html 
www.poetenladen.de/anne-marie-kenessey.htm 
www.viceversaliteratur.ch/author/9140 

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