READING OF THE NOVEL "FAVORITA"
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 7.30 PM
Author Michelle Steinbeck reads from her latest novel "Favorita" (2024) and engages with the audience about strong female characters and her work as a writer. "Favorita" describes the odyssey of the protagonist Fila as she follows in the footsteps of her deceased mother, tracing a genealogy of femicide.
Steinbeck writes prose, poetry, and works for theater, magazines, and newspapers. Her debut novel "My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water" was nominated for both the Swiss and the German Book Prize in 2016; in 2018, she published the poetry collection "Eingesperrte Vögel singen mehr". She is a columnist for WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung and a co-founder of the women's writers' collective RAUF in Zurich. She currently lives in Basel.
