Sharon Dodua Otoo is giving several lectures at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Goethe-Institut Boston and the New Literature Festival in New York during her time as an honorary fellow at Villa Aurora.
"Ada’s Room": A Conversation about Women’s Agency in History and Literature
Reading & Talk November 7, 4 p.m. (ET) location: Harvard University with: Sharon Dodua Otoo, Cynthia Porter (Ohio State University), and Nicole Sütterlin (Harvard University).
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Resonance: A Conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo
Talk November 8, 12:15 p.m. (ET) location: Dartmouth College about: Sharon Dodua Otoo will discuss the Black German literary tradition, her experiences as a Black writer in Germany, and the Black literature festival "Resonanzen."
Authors Nakia Hill and Sharon Dodua Otoo in Conversation
Talk November 9, 4 p.m. (ET) location: Goethe-Institut Boston about: Authors and activists Nakia Hill and Sharon Dodua Otoo will have a conversation about their approaches to supporting Black authors in Boston and Germany.
Conversation November 13, 6 p.m. (ET) location: New York City about: Katja Brunner, Maaza Mengiste, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Doron Rabinovici, and others will discuss and read from their works as part of the Festival Neue Literatur 2024.
Sharon Dodua Otoo is a novelist and political activist. Otoo won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with the text Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin. Her first novel Adas Raum was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 2021 and has been translated into several languages, including two English language versions Ada's Realm (MacLehose Press, 2023) and Ada's Room (Riverhead Books, 2023). In collaboration with the Ruhrfestspiele, one of the oldest, largest and most renowned theatre festivals in Europe, she curates the Black German-language literature festival "Resonanzen".
