Poison Delfi Magazin mit Fatima Daas, Seynabou Sonko, Fatma Aydemir u.a.

A Franco-German exchange of a different kind: to mark the publication of its third issue, Delfi, the magazine for new literature, is inviting three contributors from Paris and Berlin to talk about the current issue's theme "Poison/Gift". It is about the intoxicating power of poetry, the racist healthcare system, poisonous language and the epistolary form as a way out of a piercing silence. The two co-editors Miryam Schellbach and Fatma Aydemir will speak and read together with the Parisian authors Fatima Daas and Seynabou Sonko as well as the Berlin author Raphaëlle Red.

FatmaAydemir is a writer and journalist. She is the author of the two novels Ellbogen (Hanser Verlag, 2017) and Dschinns (Hanser Verlag, 2022) and co-editor of Delfi. Together with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, she published the essay collection Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Ullstein) in 2019. She is a columnist for the British newspaper Guardian, author of the play Doktormutter Faust and curates the discourse series Materien at Schauspiel Essen.

Fatima Daas is a French author of Algerian origin. She grew up in Clichy-sous-Bois. Her first novel The Youngest Daughter (Claassen, 2021) was awarded the Prix des Inrockuptibles and the International Literature Prize of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among others. The work has since been translated into nine languages. Daas lives in Paris.

Miryam Schellbach is a literary moderator, critic, program director of claassen-Verlag and co-editor of Delfi. Most recently, she co-edited the anthology Trotzdem sprechen (Ullstein, 2024) with Lena Gorelik and Mirjam Zadoff.

Raphaëlle Red was born in Paris in 1997 and grew up in Berlin, where she still lives today. She writes in French, English and German. Her German-language texts have already appeared in the anthologies Resonanzen (Spector Books, 2022) and Glückwunsch (Hanser Berlin, 2023). In September, Rowohlt will publish her debut novel Adikou in German, with which she has just been nominated for the Prix Premiere literary prize.

Seynabou Sonko, born in Paris in 1993, is a writer and musician. Her debut novel Djinns was published by French publisher Grasset in 2023 and was awarded the Prix du Cheval Blanc and the Prix du musée de l'immigration. In 2024, she is working on her second novel in the form of a giallo, a popular Italian novel and film genre on the border between crime, horror and eroticism, at the Villa Medici in Rome.