The guests for the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, partly curated by Helon Habila, which runs from September 5 – 14, 2024 have been announced.
The Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (English: International Literature Festival Berlin) was founded by Ulrich Schreiber who directed it until 2023 when Lavinia Frey replaced him. Its broad stylistic and thematic spectrum brings literary wealth to Berlin, Germany with prose, poetry, nonfiction, graphic novels, and children’s and young adult books.
For 2024, organisers collaborated with Curator in Residence Helon Habila who was responsible for events and invitations and would work together with the festival director and the team to develop a guiding theme.
The fruits of their labour are about to be harvested as writers of African descent who address themes ranging from nonfiction writing, diaspora, and Africanfuturism head to the German city to share their insights. Making a showing in Berlin speaking either on their books or on their passions at the Habila curated sessions will be;
- Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: Writing in A Time of Catastrophe
- Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: Le convoi
- Sonia Faleiro: The Art of Nonfiction
- V. V. Ganeshananthan: Brotherless Night
- Ben Okri: Existential Creativity
- Noo Saro-Wiwa: Black Ghosts – A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
- Wana Udobang: The Comfort Food Workshop
- Helon Habila: The Art of Writing
- Helon Habila: Shared Trauma: Eine Nacht der Erinnerungen
- Logan February, Sasha Marianna Salzmann: »A Writer is by Definition a Disturber of the Peace« – The James Baldwin Centenary Panel
- Novuyo Rosa Tshuma: Digging Stars
- Okwiri Oduor: Things They Lost
- Nnedi Okorafor: Extreme Metaphors: Challenging The Received Tradition
- Nnedi Okorafor: She Who Knows
- Chika Unigwe: Lost/Found in Translation: The Joys and Challenges of Multivocality
For the full program, we suggest that you try here. If you are in Berlin or Germany, you know what to do next month…
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