Conversation and Reading with Nelio Biedermann

Nelio Biedermann was twenty when he wrote his historical family novel by hand. He once said that nothing makes him as happy as writing. The result is the monumental novel Lázár, in which he transforms the story of his Hungarian-born ancestors into literary fiction. It is a novel that forms a world of its own: the compelling story of a family driven by love and the longing for love through the upheavals of the 20th century. Gripping and moving, yet also light in touch and full of dreams and secrets, it reflects both the tragedy and the beauty of human existence. Whether amid historical catastrophes or in the peace of the most beautiful summer days, one eternal question keeps returning: how should we live?

Participants:
Nelio Biedermann, author
Márió Nemes Z., moderator

With simultaneous interpretation in German and Hungarian

The novel has been translated into more than twenty languages.