#  Sharon Dodua Otoo: "Ada’s Room": A Conversation about Women’s Agency in History and Literature 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 7, 2024** 

 04:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

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 **Barker 133 (Plimpton Room)**  



 

 



 

 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

   ![Otoo photo and book jackets](/sites/g/files/omnuum6781/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/germanic/files/sharon_for_gll.png?itok=F5Zz1jo-) 

 



 

 



 

 

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