Two of Germany’s most important contemporary writers, Ingo Schulze and Juli Zeh, are now in Vietnam to meet with Vietnamese readers on the occasion of the program “Germany in Vietnam 2010”.

Writer Ingo Schulze

Two of Germany’s most important contemporary writers, Ingo Schulze and Juli Zeh, are now in Vietnam to meet with Vietnamese readers on the occasion of the program “Germany in Vietnam 2010”.

Ingo Schulze and Juli Zeh will travel from Hanoi to HCM City and each will deal in their own unique literary way with the experiences they will gather.

While Ingo Schulze plans to approach Vietnam more in the manner of an essayist, Juli Zeh will report her daily travel experiences in a blog on the Goethe Institute’s website. Her entries are also available on VietNamNet newspaper.

Ingo Schulze will read from his novel Adam und Evelyn, a love story set before the background of the summer of 1989, which has been translated into Vietnamese to coincide with his visit in literary evening at the Goethe Institute in HCM City on October 15. Juli Zeh will present her on October 21.

Similar evenings were held at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on October 2.

Ingo Schulze was born in 1962 in Dresden, studied classical philology in Jena and worked in Altenburg as theatrical dramaturge and newspaper editor. He has lived in Berlin since 1993.

Writer Juli Zeh

He received many awards including the Berlin Literature Prize with the Johannes-Bobrowski-Medal, the Premio Grinzane Cavour and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. His books have been translated into 30 languages and the Vietnamese translation of Adam und Evelyn will soon be released.

Juli Zeh was born in 1974 in Bonn. She studied law in Passau and Leipzig and gained a parallel degree at the Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig. Stays in the USA, in Poland, Hungary, Austria and in Bosnia-Herzegovina followed. Her various experiences in other countries as well as her studies in international law are evident in her novels. Her first novel Adler und Engel has already been translated into 29 languages.

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