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Project for writers

Akshar, an Indo-German Writers in Residence Project, will be presented by Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan and the Madras Book Club this evening at 6.30 at Taj Connemara.

The project began in June and, over the next four months, seven Indian and seven German authors will be spending four weeks in each other's country where they will maintain a diary of their impressions and experiences.

Akshar will introduce the writers, their works, biographies, background and their observations. All the 14 participants will attend the Frankfurt Book Fair in October to talk about their travels.

The German authors in India are Guy Helminger (Hyderabad), Sandra Hoffmann (Mumbai), Angela Krauss (Chennai), Kristof Magnusson (Pune), Martin Mosebach (New Delhi), Georg Martin Oswald (Bangalore) and Josef Winkler (Kolkata).

Angela started her work in Chennai on June 23 and will continue till August 1. The protagonists in Angela's recent stories may often find themselves trapped in the tension of post-reunification Germany, but fundamental questions and themes about life have appeared in her earlier works.

Indian writers who will be in Germany as part of the project are: Swapnamoy Chakraborti (Berlin), Adyasha Das (Frankfurt), Mahesh Dattani (Stuttgart), Mogalli Ganesh (Munich), Bhupinder Aziz Parihar (Cologne), Maythil Radhakrishnan (Leipzig) and Rajula Shah (Hamburg). Of the seven, the Chennai-based Radhakrishnan is a writer, journalist, editor, statistician and data processor. His interest ranges from films to music and quiz. Radhakrishnan has written three novellas in Malyalam that have been translated into English as "The Love Song of Alfred Hitchcock", "Hitchcock's Intervention" and "Music is a Time-Art". He will be in Leipzig from September 9 to October 10.

For details, call 28331314 or 28332343.

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