Nino Haratischwili and Vincenzo Latronico are two of Europe’s most successful writers, both back home in Germany and Italy and also internationally in translation. Born in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, today living in Berlin and writing in German, Nino is nicknamed Germany’s Elena Ferrante for her page-turning epics of female friendship. She is also a well-known playwright and director, and outspoken champion of independent Georgia. Vincenzo was born in Rome, lives in Milan and spent many years in Berlin. He is an art critic, novelist and Italian translator of George Orwell, Oscar Wilde and many others. His breathtaking psychological study of a woke millennial couple in Berlin, Perfection, was a major critical success.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this dynamic duo in conversation as they discuss their multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary creative lives with award-winning writer and critic Maya Jaggi.
Nino Haratischwili and Vincenzo Latronico
In conversation.
CHAIR: Maya Jaggi
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About the chair:
An award-winning writer and cultural journalist, Maya Jaggi is a contributing art critic for Financial Times, and current chair of judges for the EBRD Literature Prize. A former arts writer and fiction critic for The Guardian, she has profiled a dozen Nobel laureates, and figures from Edward Said to Umberto Eco. Elected a Royal Society of Literature fellow in 2023, she has been a DAAD Fellow in Berlin; Writer in Residence in Tbilisi; and artistic director of the UK’s first Georgian writers’ festival and its online British Library sequel, Georgia’s Fantastic Tavern.
