Readings, sloth as a career choice, conversations, inquisitions, interpretations and misinterpretations....Everything you wanted and didn\'t want to know about Kiran Nagarkar and forgot to ask.
Moderation and Reading in German: Dr. Renate Bürner-Kotzam, Universität München
Languages: English and German

Kiran Nagarkar belongs to that endangered species called the bilingual author. He is a novelist, playwright, social, political, and literary critic. His novels include Saat Sakkam Trechalis which is considered a landmark in Marathi literature and according to some critics, reinvented Marathi, the language of the state of Maharashtra. The book’s translated into English as Seven Sixes Are Forty-three (first published in Australia by QUP). The rest of his novels are in English: Ravan and Eddie, Cuckold, God\'s Little Soldier and The Extras. His novels are translated into Marathi, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. While Cuckold won the Sahitya Akademy Award (National Academy of Literature prize) for best novel in 2000, the doyen of Indian literature, Khushwant Singh remarked that \'...Cuckold written in English I regard as the best by an Indian.\' In 2012 The New York Review of Books  published Ravan and Eddie which Katherine Boo called ‘Wicked, magical, hilarious, enduring: A masterpiece from one of world literature’s great cult writers.’ in their new e-book series.

All his novels have been translated and published in German. Gottes Kleiner Krieger was a Bestseller in Germany and in 2013 his novel Die Statisten was given the ITB award for culture and literature.

In a recent survey of its members conducted by Litprom (the prestigious German Society for the Promotion of African, Asian and Latin American Literature), Nagarkar was ranked 12th in the list of ‘the Best 30 authors’, along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie. \'God\'s Little Soldier\' was among the list of Litprom\'s \'30 best Books\'.

In November 2012 the President of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded Germany’s highest civilian award the Cross of the Order Of Merit to Kiran Nagarkar.

Dr. Renate Bürner-Kotzam is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Universities in Munich, Neubiberg and Konstanz and lecturer at Goethe Institute. She published articles on the literature of the bourgouis realism, film analytic, cinematic story telling and media integrating narratology. She has been DAAD lecturer in China and India (University of Mumbai).

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