Sharon Dodua Otoo: "Ada’s Room": A Conversation about Women’s Agency in History and Literature
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Moderators: Cynthia Porter (Ohio State University) and Nicole Sütterlin (Harvard)
Organizer: Nicole Sütterlin
Sharon Dodua Otoo is a novelist and political activist. Otoo won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with the text "Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin". Her first novel, Adas Raum, was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 2021 and has been translated into several languages, including two English language versions: Ada's Realm (MacLehose Press, 2023) and Ada's Room (Riverhead Books, 2023). In collaboration with the Ruhrfestspiele, one of the oldest, largest and most renowned theatre festivals in Europe, she curates the Black German-language literature festival "Resonanzen".
The event will be followed by a communal dinner in the Thompson Room (Barker 110).
Sponsored by Harvard’s Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
