Haus für Poesie

Talk

Ketty Nivyabandi BDI writer and activist, in converation with Adams Sinarinzi BDI writer

The work of Ketty Nivyabandi (b. 1978 in Uccle, Belgium) is one of those rare cases in which political engagement meets poetic complexity. Nivyabandi’s poems reflect the history of her country, Burundi, from which she had to flee in 2015, in the mirror of her own biography. With the power of her imagery, her flow, she transforms them both into a form of poetic resistance. Her poems are songs of a “shredded nation” of broken-but-whole people” who never cease turning the word “freedom” over in their mouths in spite of war, hunger and persecution.

English-German interpreting will be available for this event.

Location:
Akademie der Künste

Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin

Entrance fee:
Eintritt frei