Atfah, Lina

Lina Atfah was born in Syria in 1989 and studied Arabic literature in Damascus. In 2014, she received permission to leave the country and came to Germany. In 2019, her first book of poetry was published in German, “Das Buch von der fehlenden Ankunft” (Pendragon), followed in 2022 by “Grabtuch aus Schmetterlingen” (Pendragon 2022, translated by Brigitte Oleschinski and Osman Yousufi). In 2020, she was awarded the LiBeraturpreis at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Lina Atfah has lived in Wanne-Eickel in NRW since 2014.

Festival Content

Buchengarten Readings

Buchengarten | Free admission

On the festival weekend, Akademie der Künste turns into a poetic hidden-object picture. More than 40 poets and translators will read in the Buchengarten on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Poetry volumes and journals can be purchased at the book market on Sunday.

Ahmadi, Pegah • Atfah, Lina • Casanyes, Mireia • Cotten, Ann • Debeljak, Lukas • Falb, Daniel • Farnbacher, Tabea • Ferretti, Giorgio • Fuad, Tracy • Grünbein, Durs • Lobejäger, Rosa • Oleschinski, Brigitte • Ostashevsky, Eugene • Patterson, James Conor • Pichler, Greta Maria • Preiwuß, Kerstin • Schadt, Kathrin • Shemoelof, Mati • Sielaff, Volker • Stawenow, Konstantin • Wenzel, Christoph • Zarka, Hanadi