Pierre Jarawan in Gauting: Literary border crossings about home, flight, and identity
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Literature knows no borders: boox Border Crossings in Gauting
What do books tell us about borders and their transcendence? This literary evening at bosco Gauting is dedicated to stories that traverse countries, languages, and identities. Sabine Zaplin and Tanja Weber welcome the German-Lebanese author Pierre Jarawan to discuss flight and arrival, separation and connection, as well as how literature makes geographical and societal borders visible, questions them, and shifts them.
An evening between home, memory, and identity
The boox series connects readings, literary discussions, and personal author encounters. The focus is on books that link individual life stories with broader historical and political experiences. The reading atmosphere promises a concentrated yet open exchange on narrative perspectives, belonging, and the power of narrated memory.
Pierre Jarawan: Language art between two worlds
Pierre Jarawan was born in 1985 in Amman to a Lebanese father and a German mother and came to Germany at the age of three. His literary work revolves around heritage, loss, migration, and the search for both a personal and cultural home. With his debut novel At the End, the Cedars Remain, he achieved an internationally recognized family and identity narrative, which received the Bavarian Art Promotion Award and the AZ Literature Star, among others.
In A Song for the Missing, Jarawan connects the story of Lebanon with a coming-of-age narrative. His novel Woman in the Moon links the story of the Lebanese Rocket Society with the repercussions of the Beirut port explosion, unfolding a cross-continental family saga. In 2024, Jarawan received the Ernst-Hoferichter Prize, and in 2025, Woman in the Moon was awarded the Tukan Prize.
Sabine Zaplin and Tanja Weber as knowledgeable hosts
Sabine Zaplin works as a writer, translator, and moderator. Her literary spectrum ranges from novels and plays to poetry. Together with Tanja Weber, she moderates the literary event boox at bosco, thus creating a fixed meeting point for the Gauting literary scene.
Tanja Weber is a writer, screenwriter, and dramaturge. She writes in various genres, including crime novels, historical novels, and family novels. For her novel Summer Sowing, she was nominated for the Friedrich-Glauser Prize; in 2011, she became the first author to receive the Gauting Literature Prize. In conversation with Pierre Jarawan, literary experience, journalistic moderation, and a keen sense of socially relevant topics converge.
Literature as a space for crossing borders
The evening focuses on the cultural significance of stories. Literature opens up experiences where foreign perspectives become comprehensible and biographical breaks gain a language. Between voice, text, and conversation, a literary experience emerges that addresses issues of origin, belonging, and social cohesion not abstractly, but through specific works.
Conclusion: An author encounter with societal depth
boox Border Crossings invites visitors to a literarily demanding evening with reading, discussion, and cultural-political resonance. Those who want to get to know Pierre Jarawan’s art of language, reflect on borders in literature, and experience a special event in the Gauting literary scene will find a compelling place for exchange and inspiration at bosco.
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- Website: https://www.pierrejarawan.de/
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