Milena Michiko Flašar "The Hare in the Moon"

Who is reflected in the nighttime window? The writer, born in 1980 in St. Pölten to a Japanese mother and an Austrian father, who studied German and Romance languages in Vienna and Berlin, became known to a wider audience with her award-winning text "I Called Him Tie." Her next novels, "Mr. Katō Plays Family" and "Above Earth, Below Sky," were presented in 2018 and 2023 as part of the Schaumburg Variations. In her rhythmically and lexically distinctive, complex narratives, Milena Michiko Flašar explores various forms of loneliness and unfulfilled longings: Who is reflected in the nighttime window? Me or someone else? What happens when the skin becomes permeable and the air thinner? "Flašar doesn't use a single sentence too many, creating a world full of poetic ambiguities and leaving her readers room for their own interpretations," describes Daniela Chana from the Vienna Literature House, the captivating style. Admission: €18 / Students: €13