Award winning authors Marjorie Agosin (Wellesley College) and Ruth Behar (University of Michigan) will join us for an afternoon of readings and discussions on Young Adult Literature and processing the past through writing. Agosin and Behar, whose families had to face experiences of flight in the past due to several political reasons, live in the US today and process their experiences of fleeing and searching for a new home in their young adult novels `Letters from Cuba´ (Behar) and `The Maps of Memory´ (Agosín).
We will start with the authors introducing their novels and reading from them, and then having a talk and Q&A on why Young Adult Literature can be interesting also for grown-ups, and how they as writers process their pasts through the writing of these texts.
To join, sign up with Dagmar Wallenstorfer - dagmar.wallenstorfer(at)uni-graz.at.