Literature Night 2024
Spot 1 - Kairos

Title: Kairos
Author: Jenny Erpenbeck
German publisher: Penguin Verlag
US publisher: New Directions
Translator: Michael Hofmann
Year: Original German: 2021
English version: 2023
 

Kairos tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. (source: New Directions)

WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She is an opera director, playwright and award-winning novelist. Erpenbeck’s work has been translated into over 30 languages. In 2019 her novel Visitation was named one of the 100 best books of the 21st century by the Guardian.
Performer: Yik-Sau Chung
An actor from Hong Kong with a passion in theatre and dance. After receiving a scholarship from Lee Hysan Foundation, Chung started her training at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated with BA (Hons) Acting (Collaborative and Devised Theater). Also Graduated from BA (Hons) Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chung seeks to bring her heritage to reach a broader audience, and explore intercultural conversations through devising.