Literary programme
Michi Strausfeld: “Yellow Butterflies and the Dictators: Latin America Tells Its Story”
A new and illuminating perspective on the history of Latin America — explained and narrated by the continent’s own writers. Michi Strausfeld has played a major role in the boom of Latin American literature in Germany since the 1970s. Complemented by personal portraits of the leading authors, all of whom she knew personally. A unique and vivid account of 500 years of cultural history, as portrayed by its great literature in all its breadth and diversity, written by one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject.
“This is a political book. In Latin America, literature and politics can hardly be separated. For a dialogue on equal terms, we need to see the continent through the eyes of its own writers — not through a Eurocentric lens.”
Moderation: Ulrich Schreiber
