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New year, new Dead Ladies! February sees a fabulous array of foregone females dished up for your delight: an award-winning author who taught herself to read and write, a swashbuckling lady sea captain, and an early stuntwoman and inventor. Presented by top Berlin writer Deniz Utlu, amazing translator Laura Radosh, and your regular co-host Katy Derbyshire. All kept on the rails by your other beloved co-host, Florian Duijsens. So get ready to laugh, gasp, and cry as you raise a glass to a trio of inspiring women with us in the ACUD Studio on 13 February, 8pm.

Presented in a messy mixture of English and German. €5, or €3 reduced entry. Now generously supported by the Berliner Senat. Doors open 7:30 – come on time to get a good seat!

Also, since we last wrote you three (!) more podcast episodes have gone up. Courtesy of our magnificent producer Susan Stone, these present highlights from past events, plus one or two extra bits to delight your ears. Do click through for a listen to Katy on the great poet May Ayim (recorded live in the studio), Florian on the deathless 

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Aglaja Veteranyi

WRITER

1962 - 2002

Aglaja Veteranyi

Aglaja Veteranyi (1962–2002) was a Swiss writer of Romanian origin, from a family of Romanian and Hungarian descent. She was born in Bucharest but eventually settled in Switzerland with her family of touring circus performers. She is best known for her novel Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aglaja Veteranyi has received more than 25,576 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Aglaja Veteranyi is the 6,093rd most popular writer, the 500th most popular biography from Romania and the 57th most popular Romanian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 26k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aglaja Veteranyi ranks 6,093 out of 7,302. Before her are Miklós Haraszti, Zadie Smith, Margaret Drabble, Coventry Patmore, Owen Barfield, and Peter Orlovsk

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A year of reading the world

The internet has been a breeding ground for weird and wonderful literary ventures since it stretched its tentacles into most of our homes somewhere around the mid nineties. Whether you want to talk about, swap, write or analyse books – or even cut them up and make them into something else entirely – there is a site out there for you.

Few people, however, have been more dedicated to exploring the possibilities of marrying web and paper pages than Swiss networker and literary critic Beat Mazenauer. Having been involved with arts projects on the internet since the early days of the information superhighway, he is the driving force behind such collaborations as the literature platform Readme.cc and the recent Imaginary Museum of Migration, which collects and displays the migration stories of its users. He is also General Secretary of the Swiss Ministry of Culture, a daring project that capitalises on the fact Switzerland has no official ministry of culture (as its government members are known as federal councillors instead) to highlight the power of d

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