AWW23: Lost in Berlin - Amit Chaudhuri

Published: March 27, 2023, 12:59 a.m.

Chair: Jonathan Green

Amit Chaudhuri is an acclaimed essayist, musician, poet and the author of eight novels. His latest, Sojourn, is the story of an Indian academic who arrives in Berlin in 2005 and finds himself absorbed by the city. With this absorption comes the dissolution of identity and memory, as he experiences a profound identification with this otherwise foreign place. Chaudhuri talks about the relationship between history, identity and memory.

Event details: Wed 08 Mar, 9:30am on the West Stage