Digital Author Talk - Daniel Kehlmann

At Jörn's Library, you can see ten authors divided into six author talks shown on our projector screen during the spring of 2025, via Library Play, which is a streaming service from Stockholm City Library.
The author talks are recorded from Malmö City Library and today you get to meet the author Daniel Kehlmann in conversation with Cecilia Hansson.

The conversation will be held in English.

Daniel Kehlmann was born in 1975 in Munich, made his debut in 1997, and gained his major international breakthrough in 2007 with Measuring the World. He has published a number of award-winning novels and also written plays and screenplays, including for the TV series Kafka, which aired on SVT last fall.

This spring, his sixth novel, The Play of Light, will be published in Swedish, translated by Jesper Festin. In this work, Kehlmann unfolds, with deceptive playfulness, an increasingly nightmarish portrayal of dominance and submission, self-deception, fear, and silent violence.

Photo: Heike Steinweg

Monday 26/5 at 18.00
Jörn's library

Other author talks during the spring:

17/3 Rachel Cusk in conversation with Mats Almegård.
The conversation will be held in English.

7/4 Lena Andersson in conversation with Sonja Schwarzenberger. The conversation is held in Swedish.

28/4 Vinthundarna - Sara Stridsberg, Jenny Tunedal, Malin Nord, Linda Örtenblad and Gertrud Hellbrand in conversation with Ida Linde. The conversation is held in Swedish

12/5 Fady Joudah in conversation with Athena Farrokhzad. The conversation will be held in English.

Arr: Skellefteå Municipality/Jörn's Library

Play Library

The library Play is a streaming service from Stockholm City Library. Here you can watch programs about literature, culture and education. Every year, lots of exciting author talks, lectures, quizzes and other fun events are arranged at our libraries.
Some of the programs are recorded so you can watch them in your library or from home, and these are collected on the Play Library.