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Reading by Jean d'Amérique (Haiti/France) at the Literaturhaus Kassel
The event will be held in German and French at the Literaturhaus Kassel in the Palais Bellevue from 19:00-21:00.
The Institute for Romance Studies cordially invites you: On 23.01.2025, Jean d'Amérique, writer, rapper and shooting star of the cultural scene, will read from his debut novel Torn Sun. The novel was published by Actes Sud in France in 2021 (original title: Soleil à coudre) and was published in German translation by Litradukt Verlag at the end of 2024.
"You will be alone in the great night..." The young girl, who is only called Tête Fêlée, or "spinner", constantly hears this prophecy from "Papa", who, of course, is not her real father. After all, Papa has made a career as the best mercenary of the "metal angel", the most powerful gangster in the neighborhood, while her mother Fleur d'Orange has to prostitute herself. When Fleur d'Orange inadvertently foils a coup by the metal angel, an avalanche is set in motion ...
Tête Fêlée's narrative oscillates between her experiences of violence, assault and an impossible childhood in the slums of Port-au-Prince and the letter to a classmate with whom she is in love, a letter she has never started. But this love is not her only secret ...
A unique novel in which sarcasm and innocence combine to create gruesome poetry, awarded the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté and the Prix Dubreuil du premier roman by the Société des Gens de Lettres.
Jean D'Amérique, born in 1994 in Côte-de-Fer, Haiti, is a poet, rapper, playwright and novelist. In particular, he received the Prix de Poésie de la Vocation for Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte (Cheyne, 2017) and the Prix Jean-Jacques Lerrant des Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Thèâtre for Cathédrale des Cochons (Editions Théâtrales, 2020).Jean D'Amérique is director of the Transe Poétique festival and the poetry magazine Davertige. From February 2025, he will be writer in residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich for six months.
An event organized by the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Kassel in cooperation with the Institut Français, the Literaturhaus Kassel and the Deutsch-Französisches Forum Kassel.
Admission is free!