CKCU Literary News
Wednesday November 1st, 2023 with Hans G. Ruprecht
Award winning authors Jenny ERPENBECK and David BERGEN at the Ottawa international Writers Festival - Fall 2023 Edition.

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. New Directions publishes her books The Old Child & Other Stories , The End of Days , The Book of Words , and Visitation , which NPR called “a story of the century as seen by the objects we’ve known and lost along the way.” The End of Days won the prestigious Hans Fallada Prize and the International Foreign Fiction Prize, and is the author’s representative text for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Her most well-known work, Go, Went, Gone , was longlisted for The Man Booker International Prize in 2018, of which New Yorker critic James Wood noted would be the book cited “[when] Erpenbeck wins the Nobel Prize.” Following her insightful non-fiction essay collection Not a Novel , comes the new novel Kairos , longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature. In his praise for Kairos , John Powers of the NPR emphatically states that he “fully [expects] [Erpenbeck] to win the Nobel Prize sometime in the next five years.” An epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Erpenbeck lives in Berlin. David Bergen is the author of numerous acclaimed novels and short-story collections, including The Time In Between, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Out of Mind, winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Away from the Dead is his thirteenth book of fiction. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. https://writersfestival.org/authors/fall-2023