Julia Kissina provokes in her texts, using the real absurd and fantastic (Russia / Germany)

The literary beginnings of the Kiev native and Berlin resident Julia Kissina lay in the 1990s underground scene, where she became known for representing the second generation of Muscovite Conceptualists. In Germany, her book of short stories "Vergiss Tarantino" (2005; tr: Forget Tarantino) achieved cult status. She will be reading out of the Andrei-Bely-Prize nominated book, "Einfache Wünsche" (2002; tr: Simple wishes), in which she plumbs the possibilities of fiction, artistic provocation and poetry for the chance to perceive the familiar anew with the "tongue of language".

Focus Eastern Europe

PRESENTER: Michaela Steiger SPEAKER: Naomi Krauss