The awarding of the 2024 Friedrich Ulfers Prize will be followed by the Festival Neue Literatur event, “Whose/Story Is History: Shifting the Perspective,” which will feature readings by and a conversation among authors Maaza Mengiste, Doron Rabinovici, Katja Brunner, and Sharon Dodua Otoo, and will be moderated by the festival curator Tess Lewis.

About the Friedrich Ulfers Prize Recipient:

Edwin Frank is the founder and editor of the NYRB Classics series and the author of Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013. His Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel will be published by FSG in November of this year.

About the Friedrich Ulfers Prize Laudator:

Geoffrey O’Brien has published ten collections of poetry, most recently Went Like It Came (2023), and twelve books encompassing cultural history, memoir, and criticism, including Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties, The Phantom Empire, Sonata for Jukebox, and Arabian Nights of 1934. An editor at Library of America for 25 years, he retired as editor in chief in 2017. His writing on film, theater, music, and literature has appeared frequently in The New York Review of Books, Film Comment, Artforum, The Village Voice, and other periodicals.

Date and Time: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Location: Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003.

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