In the organizer's words:

Witty, clear-sighted and highly entertaining: Monika Maron's diary entries from the years 1980 to 2021, now published for the first time, provide unexpectedly deep insights into the life of a great writer. In the GDR, Monika Maron was a prisoner of censorship and cultural despotism, but even before she left the country in 1988, she repeatedly managed to escape: to London, New York and Rome. As a traveler between systems and continents, Monika Maron casts her very own view of the world, which makes reading her notes, which tell of dreams and doubts, of artists and struggles, a unique and unforgettable experience.

Monika Maron, born in Berlin in 1941, is one of the most important writers of our time. She grew up in the GDR, moved to Hamburg in 1988 and has lived in Berlin again since 1993. She has published numerous novels and several volumes of essays. She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Kleist Prize (1992), the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Homburg (2003), the German National Prize (2009), the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony (2011) and the Ida Dehmel Literature Prize (2017).

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Photo © Jonas Maron