WORKSHOP DISCUSSION
AT LITERATURHAUS BASEL
Workshop Discussion with Amanda Michalopoulou
Why I Killed my Best Friend
Wednesday, 18. January 2023, 19.00
Literaturhaus Basel
WITH A GREEK APERITIF!
Workshop discussion at Literaturhaus Basel with our writer in residence Amanda Michalopoulou who is living and working in Basel at Atelier Mondial for three months. This is chance to get to know the work of this award winning author in German (and Greek).In her new novel, the ten-year old Maria suddenly finds herself back in Greece, the land of her birth, and homesick for Nigeria, the country of her childhood, where her father works for an oil company. She hates everything about Athens: the food, the school, the language. Until Anna comes along. The two girls become best friends, as well as the fiercest of rivals. Michalopoulou traces the highs and lows of this powerful, self-destructive relationship from their time together in school during the 1970s, after the dictatorship, into adulthood. 

A cooperation between Literaturhaus Basel and Atelier Mondial.

Venue: Literaturhaus Basel, Barfüssergasse 3, 4051 Basel.
Tickets: CHF 18/13.

CONTRIBUTORS AND BIOGRAPHIES
Reading (Greek): Amanda Michalopoulou
Moderation: Anna Chatzinikolaou
Translation: Dimitris Depountis
Reading (German): Dagny Gioulami