The Berlin Sofa

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Berlin-based celebrities from English-language countries read from their favourite authors´ works.

NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADOR PETER RIDER and novelist PAULA MORRIS

New Zealand literature begins at the edge of the universe and roams the world, exploring our rich history, vibrant multicultural society, distinctive natural world, passion for sport, as well as our unique psyche and political landscape.

Readings will include fiction, poetry and non-fiction, ranging from famous names – Katherine Mansfield, Witi Ihimaera, Bill Manhire, Elizabeth Knox, Maurice Gee, Lloyd Jones, James Belich, Patricia Grace – to new Maori, Pacific and Asian voices exploring our unique place in the world, to our ‘flying Kiwi,’ writers of the diaspora.

Peter Rider is currently New Zealand Ambassador to Germany. Born in the Far North of New Zealand - Kaitaia – he studied physics and philosophy at Auckland University before commencing a career in the foreign service. He has served in Bahrain, Riyadh, Geneva and New York; and was previously New Zealand Ambassador to Thailand.

Paula Morris is a fiction writer of English and Maori descent. Born in Auckland, she's studied and worked in a number of places - London, New York, New Orleans - and is currently Fiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Her most recent novel, RANGATIRA, won the fiction categories of the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards, and was published in German in 2012 by Walde+Graf.

Tickets:
5,00 €

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