Dr Heide Kunzelmann from the Department of Modern Languages is to present on the writings of Austrian author Ilse Aichinger at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London on 8 March 2016 at 19.00.

Ilse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry. The event entitled ‘Translation, Friendship: A Celebration of the Writing of Ilse Aichinger’, curated by Yve Lomax, Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, is an evening of performances of poetry, prose and philosophy to celebrate the writings of Ilse Aichinger and the recent publication of The Bound Man, and Other Stories (Copy Press, 2015). Alongside academics and artists from various backgrounds, Heide will be providing the literary scholarly view on Aichinger’s writings in post-WW2 Austria.

Further details of the event are available at: www.acflondon.org/literature-and-books/translation-friendship-celebration-writing-ilse-ai