Born 1978 in Yekaterinburg/Russia, Alina Bronsky grew up on the Asian side of the Ural Mountains as well as in Marburg and Darmstadt. After dropping out of her medical studies, she worked as a copywriter and journalist. Her debut novel Scherbenpark, which was nominated for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, is about 17-year-old Sascha who came from Moscow to Germany and lives in the Broken Glass Park, a ghetto of high-rise buildings ruled by its own laws which she breaks with fierce determination. Sascha is a commuter between two worlds and not at home in either of them but sharp-tongued and precocious enough to stand her ground and to take the reader with her on a constantly accelerating journey.
The Munk-Goethe Writers Residency aims to foster German-Canadian exchange on European migration topics.
This reading has been made possible by the Goethe Institut-Toronto, The Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, German Studies Programme/York University, the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies, and York’s European Studies Programme.
Time: 12:30 – 2:15 pm
Location: Lounge, Department of Languages, Literatures, Linguistics, S558 Ross Building
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For more information please contact:
Dr. Diana Spokiene, Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University (Ext. 88745; email: spokiene@yorku.ca)
