»A conversation with the author Rosa Ribas«
Description
The famous Spanish crime writer Rosa Ribas will talk about her latest novels on the topic of family ties.
Rosa Ribas, born in Barcelona in 1963, studied Hispanic studies at the University of Barcelona. There she received her doctorate with a thesis on German travelers to America in the 16th and 17th centuries. She was a lecturer in Spanish at Goethe University and an employee at the Instituto Cervantes in Frankfurt. She is the author of the novels El pintor de Flandes, La detective miope, Miss Fifty, Pensión Leonardo, La luna en las minas. In Germany she is best known for the Frankfurt crime series about the Spanish-German commissioner Cornelia Weber-Tejedor, published by Suhrkamp, and the trilogy about Ana Martí, written together with Sabine Hofmann and set in post-war Barcelona. In 2022 she published Lejos, an extraordinary novel set in a half-finished housing estate. With Un asunto demasiado familiar (2019) and Los buenos hijos (2021) she began the series with the Hernández detectives, which was a great success with critics and readers alike and concluded with Nuestros muertos. Some of her works have been translated into German, English, French, Italian and Japanese.
Welcome: Mila Crespo Picó, Instituto Cervantes
Moderation: Constanze Alvarez, Bayerischer Rundfunk
An event organized by the Instituto Cervantes and the Rudolf Alexander Schröder Foundation.