Programs and Events

Upcoming Events

The U.S. Election Literature Series in Cooperation with Suhrkamp Verlag presents:

Louis Begley

Louis Begley will read from Matters of Honor (2007) published in German by Suhrkamp under the title Ehrensachen in 2007.

Berlin, April 21, 2008, 19:00
Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin
Unter den Linden 77
10117 Berlin
Reading in English
Reservation: IRCBerlin@state.gov 

Hamburg, April 23, 2008
Bucerius Law School
Audi Max
Jungiusstr. 6,
20355 Hamburg
Reading in English and German
Reservation: mierswasilvag@state.gov

Louis Begley

Novelist and retired lawyer Louis Begley is a survivor of the Holocaust. He was born in Poland in 1933 and came to the U.S. in 1946. He attended Harvard University, served in the U.S. Army from 1954-56, and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1959. Louis Begley has received numerous awards for his literary work, including the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, Prix Médicis Etranger, The Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize; the Jeanette-Schocken-Preis (Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur), and the Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung Literaturpreis. His novels have been translated into fifteen languages.

His works include:
Wartime Lies (1991)
The Man Who Was Late (1993)
As Max Saw It (1994)
About Schmidt (1996)
Mistler’s Exit (1998)
Schmidt Delivered (2000)
Shipwreck (2003)
Matters of Honor (2007)