Christopher KLOEBLE

Christopher KLOEBLE
2010 Resident
  • Europe
  • Western Europe
  • Germany
German

Christopher KLOEBLE has studied in Dublin, at the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig and at the University for Film in Munich and written for Süddeutsche Zeitung, His plays “U-Turn” and “Memory”, have been staged in major theatres in Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg and Nuremberg. For his first novel [Amongst Loners] he won the Juergen Ponto-Stiftung prize; his second book [A Knock at the Door] was published 2009. The third, [A Hidden Human], will appear in 2011; his first movie script will also be produced that year. His participation is privately funded.

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Happening Now

  • The 2024 longlist for the Saib Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literature in Translation features Ghassan Zaqtan with a poetry collection as well as a novel, and a translation by Nada Faris.  

  • The poetry of Sharron Hass appears in the bilingual volume A Winding Line: Three Hebrew Poets (Zephyr Press, 2024). 

  • Najwan Darwish’s “A Violet Darkness” in Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation from the Arabic, is the  Poem-a Day for 9/19/24.

  • Among the 2024 recipients of the Premio Argentores, given for “the best of the previous year’s authorial production” is Cynthia Edul, for her documentary play “El punto de costura.”

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

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