»Chantal-Fleur Sandjon: The sun, so bright and black«

Description

A powerful and award-winning coming-of-age novel for young people and adults with a queer, black protagonist who finds the courage to look forward. Since their first meeting, Nova has been completely fascinated by Akoua. Her thoughts only revolve around this girl who lights up Nova's world with her radiance. It's love at first sight and the beginning of an exciting time full of first times. A new beginning that leaves no room for bitter memories. Because Nova is happy and hardly thinks about what her mother, her little half-brother and she have experienced. But then the unimaginable happens and the pain returns.

Chantal-Fleur Sandjon was born in Berlin in 1984, where she now lives after working in Johannesburg, London and Frankfurt. As an Afro-German author and spoken word artist, she is particularly interested in the complex representation of black lives in Germany. Since 2019, she has increasingly supported discrimination-conscious literary projects such as DRIN from the Goethe-Institut Finland. Her novel “The Sun, So Bright and Black” was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in 2023.

An event by the “Future is Colorful” initiative as part of Black Story Month in cooperation with the Stadtbibliothek Bremen .

Where and when

Free event