Literaturklub: Dezember mit Jānis Joņevs

In the organizer's words:

In "December", Latvian author Jānis Joņevs takes us on a search for clues back to the 1990s. Brutal murders in Riga, which are blown up by the press into a series of murders, are investigated once again by researching old newspaper reports and interviewing relatives and investigators. A true-crime story that is also a panopticon of the wild post-reunification years, when anything seemed possible.

Adrian Kasnitz moderates. Reading in German and Latvian. Conversation in English.

Jānis Joņevs, born 1980 in Jelgava, studied cultural studies in Riga. He works as a copywriter, author and journalist and translates from French, including Ágota Kristóf. For the novel , born 1980 in Jelgava, studied cultural studies in Riga. He works as a copywriter, author and journalist and translates from French, including Ágota Kristóf. In 2014, he received the European Union Prize for Literature and the Latvian Culture Prize for his novel Jelgava 94. The novel has been translated into over ten languages and made into a movie. In addition to the documentary novel December, he has also published the short story collection Tīģeris.