Munk School of Global Affairs

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Munk-Goethe Writers Residency

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Edith Klein

Description

German-Croatian author Jagoda Marinić is the third recipient of the Munk-Goethe Writers Residency, which aims to foster German-Canadian exchange on European migration topics. Born 1977 in Waiblingen (Germany), she studied German, English and political sciences in Heidelberg and now works as an author, dramatist and journalist in New York and Heidelberg.

In her award-winning debut, the story collection “It Was a Marriage Proposal”, she tells of the strange ways of love and the attempt to turn everyday occurrences into something extraordinary through imagination. Her volume of stories “Russian Books” centres around the idea of loss. The characters emanate from different cultures and are presented as the outcome of social and political influences through the depiction of their societal backgrounds. This allows the reader to identify with ‘foreign’ lives. The novel “The Nameless“ draws a gentle picture of love paired with grief, aspiration and subtle humour.

What the critics are saying about “The Nameless”:

“Absolute in its poetic earnestness, simple in its means. Marinić has a lot of anger and satirical humour and with that has written a book of despair, as black as a night in the mountains and as restless as a day in Berlin.” (Spiegel)

“It is in the great literary traditions that Marinić composes a picture of reality.” (Tagespiegel)

The Munk-Goethe Writers Residency program is a collaboration between the Goethe Institut Toronto and the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies.

Main Sponsor

Joint Initiative in German and European Studies