Book Launch Guilt

HAN 11.05.2022 20 Uhr toi loi © Goethe-Institut Hanoi

Wed, 11.05.2022

Online Offline at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi and Online via Zoom

An event as part of the European Literature Days.
With participants: Mr. Dung - editor at Sao Bac, Dr. Imke Börner - lawyer from Berlin, Le Quang - translator

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"Guilt" was the second novel by Ferdinand von Schirach, which was made into a film. Anyone can become a perpetrator, it just depends on the circumstances. DEBT illustrates the life that preceded an act. And shows how a lawyer manages to successfully engage with the client in accordance with the law.

The Vietnamese version was published by the Publishing House Sao Bac.
 

Ferdinand von Schirach (* 1964, MUnich) - Author

Ferdinand von Schirach © buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Ferdinand von Schirach is a German writer and lawyer. Der Spiegel called Ferdinand von Schirach a "great storyteller", the New York Times an "extraordinary stylist", the Independent compared him to Kafka and Kleist, the Daily Telegraph named him "one of the most distinctive voices in European literature". The collections of stories »Crime«, »Guilt« and »Punishment« as well as the novels »Der Fall Collini« and »Tabu« are international bestsellers that have sold millions of times. Ferdinand von Schirach has received many literary prizes. He lives in Berlin.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Schirach
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_(Roman)
 

Le Quang (*1956, Hanoi) - Translator

Le Quang © Private studied and worked in Germany from 1974 to 2001. He supports the Vietnamese German dialogue as an interpreter and beyond that he has translated over 40 books from German.
 

Dr. Imke Börner - lawyer

Dr Imke Börner, a German lawyer from Berlin. She is very enthusiastic about the literature of Ferdinand von Schirach, whom she was able to meet personally in Berlin.
 

Nguyen Tri Dung (*1961, Hanoi) - Moderator

Mr. Dũng studied linguistics in Krasnodar, worked for many years as a translator for philosophical treatises from Russian language. Sind his retirement has published translations of popular authors such as G. Battaille, Charles de Gaulle, Jean-Claude Carrière, Umberto Eco, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Günter Grass.

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