Join WCGS for a reading by best-selling German-Swiss author Benedict Wells

[Waterloo Centre for German Studies]

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Benedict Wells will be in Kitchener-Waterloo on Thursday, 23 May 2019 to read from his best-selling novel Vom Ende der Einsamkeit, newly translated by Charlotte Collins as The End of Loneliness. The reading will be in German and English, and the author will take questions afterwards.

Wells’ novel spent over a year on the German bestseller charts and won the 2016 European Union Prize for Literature. The End of Loneliness tells the story of three siblings who have to find their way after their parents suddenly die. As they cope with loss and growing up, the youngest sibling Jules must also sort out a friendship that could develop into love. As the publisher’s promotional text puts it, the novel is a meditation “on the power of our memories, of what can be lost and what can never be let go.”  The story draws on Wells’ own childhood experiences.

This is Wells’ fourth novel, but his first to be translated into English. His work has appeared in over 20 languages.

An Evening with Author Benedict Wells

Where: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Centre in the Square)
When: Thursday, 23 May 2019, 7pm

Brought to you by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Toronto.
Please join us. Admission is free.

More information: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/evening-author-benedict-wells

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Misty Matthews-Roper
Administrative Assistant
Waterloo Centre for German Studies<https://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/wcgs/>
University of Waterloo<http://uwaterloo.ca/>

Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 39267
Email: wcgs at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:wcgs at uwaterloo.ca>





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