Poet Ulrike Almut Sandig will finish her UK tour in Oxford on on Tuesday 3 March (7th week) at 5.30pm
Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor), Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
This will be a bilingual performance of poetry and prose including specially commissioned new work and translations, film and a discussion of her new volume Buch gegen das Verschwinden (2015), followed by a reception. All welcome!
Born in Großenhain in the former East Germany in 1979, Ulrike Almut Sandig is one of the most acclaimed German writers of her generation and has received six major literature awards since the publication of her first poetry collection Zunder in 2005. Since her debut she has published two further collections including Dickicht (2011) and the prose volume Flamingos (2010).
See a portrait of one of the most original and versatile of the new generation of German authors in her own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doi1ZoszyUo#sthash.8TuA34js.dpuf