"We are really marginal figures and sometimes we don't even figure" - Writing and Living in Bombay
Wichtige Details
Datum / Dauer: Donnerstag, 09.10.2008
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Durchführung
- In Präsenz
- Veranstaltungsort
- Simón-Bolívar-Saal
Im Rahmen des Symposiums "City Jungle –City in the Jungle/La jungla de cemento – megalópolis en la jungla"
Kiran Nagarkar was born in Mumbai in 1942. He wrote several theatre pieces and screenplays and is the author of four novels in both English and Marathi. From the beginning of his writing – his first novel was published in 1974 in Marathi – he has focused on the reality of life in Bombay/Mumbai, where he still lives. Nagarkar was distinguished with the H.N. Apte Award for the best debut novel, the renowned Sahitya Award and the Dalmia Award “for the furtherance of communicative harmony through literature“. He received a Rockefeller grant and was given a scholarship by the city of Munich. He will read from his novels "Ravan and Eddie" (1995) and "God’s Little Soldier" (2006).