LiteraTour Nord – Mithu Sanyal

In the organizer's words:

Small House

Mithu Sanyal reads from "Antichristie"
Moderator: Axel Dunker

Mithu Sanyal, born in Düsseldorf in 1971, is a cultural scientist, author, journalist and critic. Her first novel "Identitti" was published in 2021, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and won several awards.

London 2022, the Queen is dead! Durga runs past the mourners: international screenwriter, daughter of an Indian and a German, and full of an appetite for rebellion and hallucinations. "Antichristie" questions colonialism and the violence in all of us. Durga is to work on a film adaptation of the super-British Agatha Christie thrillers. But suddenly it is 1906, and she meets Indian revolutionaries who are by no means fighting non-violently like Ghandi. What would real resistance be in a false world?

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Every winter from October to January, selected authors of contemporary German-language literature go on the LiteraTour Nord and read from their new publications in Oldenburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Rostock, Lüneburg, Hanover and Osnabrück. The readings will take place in local literature houses and bookshops, moderated by professors and lecturers who will each offer a seminar at their universities to accompany the tour. By taking part, the authors are also competing for the LiteraTour Nord prize, which is awarded annually by the VGH Foundation and is endowed with 15,000 euros. The jury consists of the organizers and presenters and the audience. The audience vote is determined by voting card at each of the venues. The prerequisite for voting is that you have seen all six events of the current LiteraTour Nord.

In the 2024/2025 season, Valerie Fritsch, Maren Kames, Clemens Meyer, Michael Lentz and Mithu Sanyal will go on a reading tour with LiteraTour Nord.

Sun October 27: Valerie Fritsch "Lemons"
Sun November 17: Maren Kames "Hasenprosa"
Sun December 1: Clemens Meyer "Die Projektoren"
Sun January 12: Michael Lentz "Heimwärts"
Sun January 26: Mithu Sanyal "Antichristie"

An event organized by Schweitzer Fachinformationen Bremen, Bremer Literaturkontor e.V. and the University of Bremen