As part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, you are invited to two evenings featuring authors Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Felicitas Hoppe and Elizabeth Gaffney.

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2006
Felicitas Hoppe and Elizabeth Gaffney

Reading and discussion
7:00-8:30pm

German and English

Tickets free: 212-439-8700

Goethe-Institut New York
1014 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10028

Felicitas Hoppe will read from Verbrecher und Versager: fünf Porträts [Felons and failures: five portraits], in German, and in English from a translation by Philip Boehm. She will be joined by Elizabeth Gaffney, who will read from her novel, Metropolis, published by Random House in 2005.

Ayesha Pande, of Lyons and Pande International literary agency, will then speak with the authors on their portrayals of 19th century outsiders.

Friday, April 28, 2006
"The Radical Loser": A Public Interview with Hans Magnus Enzensberger

7:30-9:00pm

German and English

Tickets free: 212-439-8700

Goethe-Institut New York
1014 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10028

Philip Gourevitch, editor of The Paris Review and author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, engages Hans Magnus Enzensberger in a discussion of what makes the radical loser become a killer, or a terrorist, based on his essay originally published in Der Spiegel and recently translated on signandsight.com.

Both events presented by Goethe-Institut New York, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, German Book Office New York, and Deutsches Haus at NYU.