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Reading and Talk with Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi. Since 2019, the award winning novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is the compulsory reading for the topic of “The Ambiguity of Belonging” in the Abitur in Baden-Württemberg. During this reading and talk, students and teachers get the opportunity to talk to the author himself about his novel and its relation to the topic.

Tom Franklin is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which was nominated for nine awards and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger Award. Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches in the University of Mississippi’s Masters of Fine Arts program. He is married to Mississippi Poet Laureate Beth Ann Fennelly.

You are curious of what the event might look like? Check out a clip of last years reading in Tübingen on our website!

Location: Schwörsaal Ravensburg (Marienplatz 28, 88212 Ravensburg)

Admission: 6 Euros for students, one teacher per 15 students free.
For Ravensburg, Reutlingen and Tübingen ticket sale will approx. start on Mon. Sep. 16, 10 am. Channels for ticket purchase to be announced.

All speaker-tour dates:

- Thur. Dec 12 10:00 Tübingen (Festsaal Neue Aula)
- Thur. Dec 12 16:00 Ravensburg (Schwörsaal)
- Fri. Dec 13 14:30 Reutlingen (Wittumhalle)

(c) Foto: Houston Cofield

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen (d.a.i.)

Karlstrasse 3
72072 Tübingen

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