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Mi.25Juni202520:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission free
Book Launch: The Palace on the Higher Hill & Eden à l’Aube
Reading & discussion
Join us for an exciting double launch event for Karim Kattan’s L'Eden à l'aube (Elyzad 2024) and The Palace on the Higher Hill (Foundry 2025), the first of his books to be translated into English.
Karim Kattan is a multi-prize-winning Francophone writer from Bethlehem, Palestine. His literary writing has never appeared in German translation and this will be his first event in Germany.
Karim will read from his work in French and English, and a discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and a signing over drinks.
This launch event forms part of Kitabat, an ad hoc series of events celebrating exciting new writing by contemporary Arab authors for Berlin audiences, focusing particularly on writers whose work is not well known in Germany.
© Rebecca Topakian Karim Kattan is a writer from Bethlehem, Palestine. In French, his books include two novels, Le Palais des deux collines (2021) and L’Éden à l’aube (2024), both of which were published by the Tunis-based Éditions Elyzad and a collection of poems, Hortus Conclusus (2025) published by L'extrême contemporain. His writing has been published in various outlets, including Le Monde, Libération, AOC, in literary journals, and in several collective works. He also writes in English; his English texts have appeared in The Paris Review, The Baffler, Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Funambulist, and more.