NEW LITERATURE FROM EUROPE FESTIVAL | READING & DISCUSSION | CRIME SCENE: EUROPE | RETURN TO THE CRIME SCENE
As part of New York’s 8th annual New Literature from Europe Festival, the BookCourt in Brooklyn presents a reading and discussion of Crime Fiction from Europe: Caryl Férey (FR), Zygmunt Miloszewski (PL), Ana Maria Sandu (ROM), Stefan Slupetzky (AUT), and Jan Costin Wagner (GER). The visiting authors will read from their featured novels and discuss the particularities of European crime fiction
Europe is in the midst of a crime wave—a surge of creative and innovative detective fiction that pays its respects to the traditions of noir while incorporating the psychological novel, the political thriller, and the border-crossings that reflect the increasingly globalized culture of the European Union. The five-day New Literature from Europe Festival will give New York audiences the opportunity to become better acquainted with European crime fiction, and will also include a series of screenings of European film noir at the Museum of the Moving Image.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Caryl Férey wrote and published his first crime novel Delicta Mortalia: peche mortel in 1995, in which Detective Mc Cash appears for the first time. His first international success was Zulu of 2008. Being himself a great traveler, Ferey’s novels, Zulu and Utu, take place all around the world: from New Zealand, where he lived for some time, to Morocco, through France and South Africa. He has also written children books
Zygmunt Miłoszewski began his writing career a reporter and editor for publications such as Newsweek, developing his talents as a teller of tales rooted in the facts of everyday life. His first novel, The Intercom, was published in 2005 to high acclaim. In 2007 he published the crime novel Entanglement.
Ana Maria Sandu lives and works in Bucharest. In 2006, her novel The Girl From the Oblong House, a cruel story about identity, was published to great critical acclaim. It was followed in 2010 by her novel Kill me! Ana Maria Sandu has also been a prolific journalist covering literature, cinema, music and urban culture for top Romanian magazines.
Stefan Slupetzky studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and worked as musician, cloakroom attendant and arts teacher before he turned to writing. He wrote and illustrated more than a dozen children’s books. Today, Slupetzky writes fiction for adults, and has produced an array of plays, short stories, novels and song-lyrics. He has written a series of crime fiction featuring Lemming, a sleuth. The latest book of the series is Lemming’s Wrath.
Author and musician Jan Costin Wagner’s first novel, Nachtfahrt, was awarded the Marlowe Prize for the best crime novel in 2002. Jan Costin Wagner makes his home near Frankfurt, but Finland, the site of his novels featuring police commissioner Kimmo Joentaa, is his second homeland. In 2008 Das Schweigen was awarded the German Krimipreis, the German Critics Award for Crime Fiction.
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VENUE
BookCourt
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Free admission. First come, first served.