Fotokreditering: Hartwig Klappert Adania Shibli (b.1974, Palestine) has written novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays. She has twice been awarded the Qattan Young Writer's Award (Palestine) – in 2002 for her novel Masaas (Al-Adab, 2001; translated as Touch, Clockroot, 2009), and in 2003 for her novel Kulluna Ba’id bethat al Miqdar aan el-Hub (Al-Adab, 2002; translated as We Are All Equally Far from Love, Clockroot, 2012). Her latest is the novel Tafsil Thanawi (Al-Adab, 2017, translated as Minor Detail, Fitzcarraldo Edition/UK, and New Directions/USA, 2020), which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2020 and nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2021. Shibli is also engaged in academic research and since 2012, she has been teaching part-time at Birzeit University, Palestine. In the fall of 2021, she was a Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Shibli is currently the writer-in-residence of the Literaturhaus in Zürich and the PWG Stiftung.
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13:00 - 13:50
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Lillehammer Kirke
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