Collective Amnesia – a conversation with Koleka Putuma

Koleka Putuma is considered one of South Africa’s most influential young performance poets, and was recently named one of Forbes Africa’s ”30 Under 30”. Her first collection of poetry, Collective Amnesia, was published in 2017 to great acclaim in her home country. Here she and Elisabeth Hjorth will engage in a dialogue around love, desire, memory and forgetting, as well as the legacy of apartheid and the decolonial struggle for freedom.

Koleka Putuma is a performance poet based in Cape Town.

Elisabeth Hjorth is a senior lecturer in literary composition at Akademin Valand, as well as a poet and novelist.

Time: September 29, 15.00-15.45
Place: Studion, The Museum of World Culture

In collaboration with Göteborgs Litteraturhus and Scener & Samtal.
For information see here: http://goteborgslitteraturhus.se/event/scener-samtal-2018/

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This dialogue was followed by a conversation between Koleka Putuma and Kayo Chingonyi, moderated by Jyoti Mistry, at the Göteborg International Book Fair on September 30, 13.45-14.45.
Organized in collaboration between PARSE and Rámus Förlag.