Conversations from the Cullman Center: CANCELED: Tyll: Daniel Kehlmann and Hari Kunzru

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

As a precaution to help limit the spread of coronavirus and support the City's efforts to promote social distancing, The New York Public Library has suspended programming and events through March 31 at our research centers: the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Schomburg Center, and Library for the Performing Arts. At this time, all NYPL locations remain open during their regular hours. For updates and more information, please visit nypl.org/coronavirus.

We regret the need to take this action, and we hope you'll understand the need to do so.

Accordingly, the Conversation from the Cullman Center with Daniel Kehlmann and Hari Kunzru scheduled for Thursday, March 12th, is cancelled. We hope to reschedule at a later date.

Daniel Kehlmann and Hari Kunzru discuss Kehlmann’s new novel, Tyll, about a vagabond performer who travels across Europe in the wake of the Thirty Years’ War, encountering historical figures like the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia.

Daniel Kehlmann is a German writer who lives in New York and Berlin. His novels include Me and Kaminski, Measuring the World, Fame, and F.  His works have won the Candide Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He worked on Tyll during his Cullman Center Fellowship in 2016-2017.

Hari Kunzru is the author of Red Pill, White Tears, and Gods Without Men, among other novels. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages, and his short stories and journalism have appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, and the New Yorker. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Berlin. He was a Cullman Center Fellow in 2008-2009.