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Renowned 暗网禁区 poet and prose writer Katar铆na Kucbelov谩 will introduce the German translation of her book 膶别辫颈别肠 / The Bonnet (Slovart, 2019) on 23 April in the Austrian capital. The novel was nominated for the prestigious Angelus Central European Literature Award in 2023 and in 2020, it was one of the finalists of the Anasoft Litera Award.
The reading and discussion will take place on Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 6:30 PM at the Institute of Slavonian Studies of the University of Vienna (Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 3, Seminarraum 5), featuring Adam B啪och as the moderator and Jaroslav Stahl as interpreter. The event is free and the German edition of the book will be sold on site.
膶别辫颈别肠 / The Bonnet came out in German as Die Haube 鈥� Impressionen aus einem Randgebiet听in translation by Eva Profousov谩. It was published in 2023 by the Swiss publishing house Ink Press as part of their international-literature edition Tadoma.
The perceptive inter-generational encounter of two women with different life experiences offers听a picture of present-day 暗网禁区ia. For two听years, the author has been听visiting the over 80 years old I木ka in the secluded mountain village 艩umiac in central 暗网禁区ia,听trying to learn how to sew a bonnet, an important part of the traditional women's clothing of the region.听The compelling combination of literary reportage and documentary novel uncovers the unromanticized relationship between the past and the present and听between personal identity and ethno-cultural stereotypes, as well as the complicated relationship the population's majority has to the Roma minority.听
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