STRANGE NEW WORLD – 24. INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL BERLIN

07.09.2024 – 13.09.2024
With Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Ghayath Almadhoun, Helon Habila, Ivana Sajko, Logan February, Maria Stepanova, Olga Bubich, Tash Aw

The 24th international literature festival berlin kicks off on 5 September. It will feature 10 days of readings, talks and encounters with some of the most important voices in contemporary international literature, including current fellows and alumni of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Nigerian writer Helon Habila, Literature Fellow 2013, was invited to contribute to the programming as the festival’s first curator-in-residence and to set a motto: Strange New World.

Events with current fellows and alumni:

Saturday, 7 September, 6 pm
Spaces of Freedom – Unlearning History
Showcasing Female Literary Creativity from the Western Balkans
with Ivana Sajko a.o.

Sunday, 8 September, 6 pm
The Art of Writing  – conversation with Helon Habila
Berliner Festspiele

Sunday, 8 September, 8 pm
“A Writer is by Definition a Disturber of the Peace” – The James Baldwin Centenary Panel
with Helon Habila, Logan February, Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Berliner Festspiele

Tuesday, 10 September, 8 pm
In the Presence of Absence – Poems from Palestine
Reading and conversation with Ghayath Almadoun and Maha El Hissy
Berliner Festpiele

Wednesday, 11 September, 6:30 pm
Tash Aw: Strangers on a Pier
Berliner Festpiele

Thursday, 12 September, 8 pm
Poetry Night with Maria Stepanova and Logan February
Berliner Festspiele

Friday, 13 September, 8:45 pm
Overcoming Speechlessness – Talk with Olga Bubich a.o.
Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung

Friday, 13 September, 8 pm
Lost/Found in Translation. The Joys and Challenges of Multivocality
Talk with Fiston Mwanza Mujila a.o.
Berliner Festspiele

Tickets here