Literary Salon @ Novotvar: Judith Hermann

Judith Hermann was born in 1970 in Berlin and since his debut collection of stories Sommerhaus, Später (1998, in Slovak translation as a summer house, later) is one of the most striking voices of contemporary German prose.

has several stories and two novels. She holds many literary awards, her latest novel Daheim (2021) came to Shortlist Leipziger Buchmesse and the author won him the Bremer Literaturpreis 2022 book Prize. With its unrepeatable literary language, Hermann opens up the theme of the ecological crisis or mass animal production in addition to the topics of home or finding his own identity.

In Slovak, the book was published by Artforum, translated by Michal Hvorecký, who will talk to the author at the Novotvar festival.

In Slovak language with interpretation into German. FREE ENTRY. With the kind support of the Volkswagen Slovakia Foundation within the Literary Salon series.