Kaleidoscope

The authors reading in the Kaleidoscope section of the programme  have been directly invited by the international literature festival berlin. These invitations are supported by an international network of friends and experts. The authors in this section supplement those chosen by the jury. Their choice responds to current cultural and political developments. Guests of the Artists-in-Berlin programme of the German Academic Exchange Service also read in this section.

The authors invited in this section in 2008.

Participants of the Kaleidoscope section

2007

Isabel Allende, Aharon Appelfeld, Attila Bartis, Thorsten Becker, Wolf Biermann, Maxim Biller, Hans Maarten van den Brink, Anne Carson, Patrizia Cavalli, Tishani Doshi, Guillermo Fadanelli, Julia Franck, Robert Gray, David Grossman, Katharina Hacker, Felicitas Hoppe, Lloyd Jones, Wladimir Kaminer, A.L. Kennedy, Michael Kleeberg, Christian Kracht, Abdelatif Laâbi, Katja Lange-Müller, António Lobo Antunes, Martin Mosebach, Azar Nafisi, Michael Ondaatje, Albert Ostermaier, Chuck Palahniuk, Ales Rasanau, Roberto Saviano, Peter Schneider, Elif Shafak, Nicholas Shakespeare, Wole Soyinka, Arnold Stadler, Ulf Stolterfoht, Hasan Ali Toptaş, Mario Vargas Llosa, Haris Vlavianos, Ornela Vorpsi, Cécile Wajsbrot, Anne Waldman, Eliot Weinberger, Yang Lian

2006

Héctor Abad, Gabriela Adameşteanu, Monica Ali, Isabel Allende, Eugenijus Ališanka, Dietlind Antretter, Stefano Benni, Paulo Henriques Britto, Bora Ćosić, Irene Dische, Slavenka Drakulić, Edouard Glissant, Dieter M. Gräf, Ulla Hahn, Pico Iyer, Viktor Jerofejew, Peter Stephan Jungk, Dževad Karahasan, Claire Keegan, Ursula Krechel, Michael Krüger, Doris Lessing, Adriana Lunardi, Alberto Manguel, Frank McCourt, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Clemens Meyer, Margriet de Moor, Tim Parks, Oskar Pastior, Luiz Ruffato, Gerhard Rühm, Lutz Seiler, Jorge Semprún, Vikram Seth, Shashi Tharoor, László Végel, István Vörös, Uljana Wolf, Feridun Zaimoglu

2005

Tariq Ali, Juri Andruchowytsch, Inger Christensen, Beqë Cufaj, Ferit Edgü, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Jonathan Safran Foer, Carlos Fuentes, William Gass, Daniele del Giudice, Georgi Gospodinov, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip Jeyaretnam, Ismail Kadare, Kwang-Kyu Kim, Ko Un, Doris Lessing, Tomas Lieske, Luo Zhicheng, Gila Lustiger, Norman Manea, Alberto Manguel, Friederike Mayröcker, Kenzaburô Ôe, Demir Özlü, Raúl Rivero, Peter Stamm, Matthew Sweeney, Yoko Tawada, Paulo Teixeira, Martin Walser, Eliot Weinberger, C.K. Williams, Zheng Chouyu

2004

Homero Aridjis, Constantin Virgil Bănescu, Daniel Bănulescu, Frédéric Beigbeder, Wolf Biermann, Petr Borkovec, Volker Braun, Tianxin Cai, Peter Carey, Gianni Celati, Rafael Chirbes, Peter Cole, Bora Ćosić, Dimitré Dinev, Feng Li, Marjana Gaponenko, Durs Grünbein, Lars Gustafsson, Christoph Hein, Viktor Jerofejew, Navid Kermani, Nicole Krauss, Antjie Krog, Jonathan Lethem, Ma Yuan, Claudio Magris, Amanda Michalopoulou, Les Murray, Oskar Pastior, Asher Reich, Boualem Sansal, Marie-Luise Scherer, Alan Sillitoe, Burkhard Spinnen, Ottó Tolnai, Peter Truschner, Ayu Utami, Gore Vidal, Eliot Weinberger, Xi Chuan

2003

Jorge Luis Arzola, Biyi Bandele, Alessandro Baricco, Oscar van den Boogard, Lars Saabye Christensen, Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda, Bora Ćosić, Nuruddin Farah, Raymond Federman, Aris Fioretos, Jonathan Franzen, Günter Grass, Nedim Gürsel, Lars Gustafsson, Mila Haugová, Zbyněk Hejda, Reinhard Jirgl, Walter Kempowski, Etgar Keret, Navid Kermani, Imre Kertész, Ko Un, Hanif Kureishi, Lee Hochol, Paulo Lins, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Lajos Parti Nagy, Oskar Pastior, Ljudmila Petruschewskaja, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Toma Šalamun, Boualem Sansal, Peter Schneider, Tilman Spengler, Ferenc Szijj, Shashi Tharoor, David Toscana, Martin Walser, Eliot Weinberger, Stefan Ludmilla Wieszner, Leon de Winter, Jeanette Winterson, Saadi Youssef, Zhang Jie

2002

Jorge Luis Arzola, Edwar al-Charrat, U.R. Ananthamurthy, Dieter Bachmann, Alessandro Baricco, Stefano Benni, Apti Bisultanov, Henryk M. Broder, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Bora Ćosić, Assia Djebar, Sherko Fatah, Richard Ford, Ričardas Gavelis, Lars Gustafsson, Dževad Karahasan, Walter Kempowski, Elias Khoury, Michael Krüger, Peter Kurzeck, Zsolt Láng, Tedi López Mills, Alberto Manguel, Giwi Margwelaschwili, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Herta Müller, Krzysztof Niewrzęda, Norman Ohler, Agneta Pleijel, Ilma Rakusa, Pedro Rosa Mendes, Elke Schmitter, Peter Schneider, Antonio Skármeta, Alan Cherchesov, John Tranter, Peter Truschner, Jorge Volpi, Eliot Weinberger, Christa Wolf, Péter Zilahy

2001

José Eduardo Agualusa, Homero Aridjis, Dieter Bachmann, Dilip Chitre, Bora Ćosić, Carlos Franz, Greg Gatenby, Nadine Gordimer, Lars Gustafsson, Hugo Hamilton, Wolfgang Hilbig, Dževad Karahasan, Klaus Kordon, Bernhard Lassahn, Pura López Colomé, Mohammad Mohammad Ali, Haralampi Oroschakoff, Orhan Pamuk, Sarah Quigley, Ilma Rakusa, Fernando Rendón, Schuldt, Kazuko Shiraishi, Charles Simic, Tim Staffel, Véronique Tadjo, Olga Tokarczuk, John Tranter, Anja Tuckermann, Yvonne Vera, Eliot Weinberger, Yang Lian, Raúl Zurita