Author Reading: Tomer Gardi

When:
Saturday, Oct 29, 2022 4:00p -
5:00p

Where:
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
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Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, Lectures & Conferences, Rainy Day Ideas

Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=24193694

Writing a Novel in a Language You Barely Speak

Tomer Gardi, with Daniel Bowles


Are you allowed to write a book in a language you are not fully in command of? Turns out, yes- and you can even win a major literary award for it. Israel-born author Tomer Gardi wrote And Nothing Ever Ends in broken German and has just been awarded the 2022 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. This session takes a look at finding your voice while moving between two worlds.

Tomer Gardi, born in 1974 in Kibbuz Dan in Galilee, studied literature in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Broken German is Tomer Gardi’s first novel written in German. Otherwise You’ll Get Your Money Back is his second novel, published in 2019. His novel A Round Thing has been awarded the 2022 Leipzig Book Fair Prize in fiction. He lives in Berlin.

Daniel Bowles is an assistant professor of German Studies at Boston College and a literary translator. His current work concerns contemporary literature and new forms of the fantastic. He has published translations of novels by Thomas Meinecke and Christian Kracht.

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