In the 4th Kaunas Literature Week - readings + talk by writer Sabrina Janesch (Germany). She will be interviewed by translator Vytenė Muschick. 

Talk and readings will be in German with translation into Lithuanian. 

SABRINA JANESCH (b. 1985) is a German writer. She studied creative writing, journalism and philology in Germany and Poland. She has published five critically and critically acclaimed books of prose. Janesch's debut novel, Katzenberg Mountains (Katzenberg, 2010), tells the story of a young woman who, after the death of her grandfather, travels to Lower Silesia in search of her family roots. Her latest novel, Sibir (2023), is also based on the author's family history and the experiences of Russian Germans during the war and after repatriation back to Germany. It is a story about the shadows of the past, about exile and the search for a homeland. 

The event is presented by the Goethe-Institut in Vilnius.