This event will be in German.
Gabriele Petricek is an award-winning novelist and author of short stories. Petricek was trained as a fashion designer before moving into journalism and creative writing. She now lives and works in Vienna as an author and journalist, with a particular focus on art and architecture. She has won several literature awards and grants. In 2005, she was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Award by jury member Burkhard Spinnen, and has since been invited as a writer-in-residence in Italy, Slovenia, Great Britain and the USA . Petricek’s most recent book, Von den Himmeln, Triptych, a series of three interlinked short stories, followed the collection of short stories entitled Zimmerfluchten, which was published in 2005.
Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College) will introduce Gabriele Petricek's reading. See this short essay in English from our guest, at New Books in German.
