Maren Kames
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Maren Kames

Maren Kames was born in 1984 in Überlingen am Bodensee and lives as a freelance author and translator in Berlin. Her books HALB TAUBE HALB PFAU (2016) and LUNA LUNA (2019) received much acclaim and various awards. Both books were made into radio plays, and LUNA LUNA was performed in 2022 at Schauspiel Leipzig. Hare Prose is her first book with Suhrkamp.
Maren Kames was born in 1984 in Überlingen am Bodensee and lives as a freelance author and translator in Berlin. Her books HALB TAUBE HALB PFAU (2016) and LUNA LUNA (2019) received much acclaim and various awards. Both books were made into radio plays, and LUNA LUNA was performed in 2022 at Schauspiel Leipzig. Hare Prose is her first book with Suhrkamp.

PUBLICATIONS

Half Pigeon Half Peacock
Year of Publication: 2024
Maren KamesYear of Publication: 2024

I am surrendered to the white, as the white is surrendered to me. Here I am exposed to fear; here, fear is exposed.

A self finds itself, on »Sunday morning, half past seven, on the shores with the great crested grebes«. From here, a landscape is surveyed, whose contours only become clear through speaking and walking. Like floes, texts emerge from the whiteness. They...
Hare Prose
Year of Publication: 2024
Maren KamesYear of Publication: 2024
»If that's all there is, I’m moving out!« someone yells and heads off in their seven-league boots and their travel socks. A hare in the back seat. We travel straight through time, through the ages, and out into pitch-dark outer space. In a hand-drawn plane through the sky and through memories: of two grandmothers, one pale, one dark, one in-tact, one damaged. A grandfather and his furrowed hands....