Navid Kermani. Sommer 2024. Autorenlesung.

Out of the house
06.05.2026, Wed., 19:30
Navid Kermani. Summer 2024 (Hanser Verlag)
Author reading and discussion in the series: New German Literature

What is it like when the familiar world dissolves, when what was normal yesterday no longer applies today? Navid Kermani captures this moment in a single summer: a friend who had recently gone astray politically has taken his own life. The wars are getting closer and the debates are getting shriller. His girlfriend thinks the narrator is a macho man, but this is by no means the worst accusation that shatters his self-image. In his inimitable way, Navid Kermani succeeds in understanding our present from its contradictions

Navid Kermani, born 1967 in Siegen, lives as a freelance writer in Cologne. He has received numerous awards, including the Kleist Prize, the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the Thomas Mann Prize in 2024.

In cooperation with the Künstlerverein Malkasten.
Venue: Künstlerverein Malkasten, Jacobistraße 6a, Düsseldorf