Global Encounters: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Alvin Pang

Lesung I internationales literaturfestival berlin

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is the 2020/21 Writer in Residence of the Cluster of Excellence »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective« at the Freie Universität Berlin. In her new novel, she researches regional archetypes of the African continent, which she reinterprets and embeds in a family history. She will meet with Alvin Pang – poet, essayist, translator, and editor, whose poems depict the psychological, emotional, and political contours of Singapore with a new urban language.

In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective

The event will be held in English. It has been pre-recorded.

Literatures of the World
Admission free

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