The Interim: Isabel Fargo Cole & Hari Kunzru
11:00 am PT | 12:00 pm MT | 1:00 pm CT | 2:00 pm ET
Virtual Event
Isabel Fargo Cole in conversation with Hari Kunzru about her translation of Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Interim, a monumental novel from one of the greatest chroniclers of postwar Germany, moderated by Dustin Illingworth. Co-presented with Third Place Books and Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Literature Series.
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Wolfgang Hilbig (1941–2007) was one of the major German writers to emerge in the postwar era. Though raised in East Germany, he proved so troublesome to the authorities that in 1985 he was granted permission to emigrate to the West. The author of more than twenty books, he received virtually all of Germany’s major literary prizes, capped by the 2002 Georg Büchner Prize, Germany’s highest literary honor.
Isabel Fargo Cole is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. Her translations include five books of Wolfgang Hilbig’s, including Old Rendering Plant, for which she received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. She has also been the recipient of a prestigious PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and her novel Die grüne Grenze was a finalist for the 2018 Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse.
Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels Red Pill, The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, and White Tears, as well as a short story collection, Noise, and a novella, Memory Palace. He is an honorary fellow of Wadham College Oxford, and has received fellowships from the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Berlin.
Dustin Illingworth is a writer in Southern California. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Paris Review, and the Times Literary Supplement.