Writers@Grinnell Welcomes Saskya Jain & Christopher Kloeble on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, at 8 p.m.

Saskya Jain and Christopher Kloeble will read from their work and discuss writing on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, as part of the Writers@Grinnell series. The event, which is free and open to the public, will start at 8 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101. In addition, they will lead a roundtable discussion at 4:15 p.m. in Rosenfield Center, Room 209.

Saskya Jain

Saskya Jain was born in Ahmedabad,India, and grew up in New Delhi. Educated at Berlin’s Free University and at Columbia University, she holds an master's of fine arts in fiction from Boston University, where she received the Florence Engel Randall Award and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, most recently in Intelligent Life, The Economist and The Caravan. She lives in New Delhi and Berlin. Her first novel, Fire Under Ash (Random House, 2014), was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, and she is currently working on her second novel.

This spring, Saskya Jain will be teaching a short course at Grinnell College titled The Migrant State of Mind: New Translated Literature from India (GLS 295-03/HUM 294-04), beginning on April 7, 2020.

Christopher Kloeble

Christopher Kloeble is a German novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He studied at the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig and at the University for Film and Television in Munich, and he has held teaching assignments and residencies in Germany, the U.S., U.K., and India, among others. His plays U-Turn and Memory have been staged at major theatres in Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg, and Nuremberg. For his first novel Amongst Loners, he won the Jürgen Ponto Stiftung prize for best debut 2008; his second book A Knock at the Door appeared in 2009. The third, Almost Everything Very Fast, which Kloeble is currently adapting as a feature film, was published in English with Graywolf Press (U.S.). His first film script, Inclusion, was produced in 2011 and nominated for the Prix Europa 2012 for best movie script. His most recent novel, The Shadows of the Salz Family, appeared in Germany in 2016. Kloeble lives in Berlin and Delhi, and is the German studies department’s writer-in-residence at Grinnell College this semester, teaching a short course titled Creative Writing in German (GRM 372-01), beginning on March 30, 2020.