Reading & Talk - Dorothee Elmiger "The Dutch Women"

Winner of the German, Swiss and Bavarian Book Prize 2025 // Reading & talk
19.4.2026, 19:30 - 21:00

Moderation: to be coordinated

Cooperation between the LiteraturSchiff initiative and the Kurdirektion bookshop

The Dutchwomen
Dorothee Elmiger's visually stunning novel - a captivating experience. Whoever enters this text
falls into the abyss of our world and stares into the darkness with eyes wide open.
Winner of the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize and the Bavarian Book Prize
Book Prize 2025

With flashing warning lights, the narrator, an unnamed writer, pulls over to the side of the road
roadside when she receives an unexpected phone call. On the line is a celebrated
theater producer who is trying to win her over for his latest project - a play set in the tropics, a
a play set in the tropics, the reconstruction of a case. A few weeks later, she sets off to
to join the theater group on their journey deep into the jungle. Dorothee
Elmiger tells an unsettling story of people and monsters, of fear and violence, of the
violence, of being lost in the universe and of the failure of narratives.

Dorothee Elmiger, born in Switzerland in 1985, lives as a freelance author and translator in New York.
York. Her books "Einladung an die Waghalsigen" (2010), "Schlafgänger" (2014) and "Aus der
Zuckerfabrik" (2020) have been translated into numerous languages, adapted for the stage and
received numerous awards. Her novel "Die Holländerinnen" received the German Book Prize in 2025,
the Bavarian Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize.
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