Conversation with Arnon Grunberg at the XVI KROKODIL Festival

15 Jul Conversation with Arnon Grunberg at the XVI KROKODIL Festival

On the third day of the XVI KROKODIL Festival, June 23rd, in the park in front of the Museum of Yugoslavia, a one-on-one conversation was held with Arnon Grunberg, the most widely read Dutch author of today. The conversation was conducted by Ivan Bevc from the publishing house Booka, which has published two of Grunberg’s novels: Tirza and The Asylum Seeker. Following the conversation, a book signing took place.

On the same day, Arnon Grunberg also participated in the debate Fake News From the Past, which launched a new KROKODIL program segment of the same name, dedicated to media literacy today in Serbia, misinformation and combating it, deepfake content and political campaigns, attempts to manipulate information, and efforts to change fundamental cognitive knowledge among citizens, especially in the post-pandemic era. Arnon Grunberg is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns. He grew up in Amsterdam in a Jewish immigrant family. He was expelled from high school at the age of seventeen. In 1990, he founded his own publishing house, Kasimir, and wrote several plays. In 1994, at the age of twenty-three, he made his debut with the novel Blue Mondays, for which he received several Dutch awards, including the Anton Wachter Prize and the De Gouden Ezelsoor, an award for the best-selling literary debut. Since then, he has written sixteen novels, including The Silent Statist, Phantom Pain, and The Jewish Messiah.

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