A Word with you

Fatima Khan is an author, co-founder of *q[lit]clgn, a feminist literature festival in Cologne, as well as a curator and moderator of various literary formats. In her writing, she engages, among other things, with the German literary tradition. In 2025, she was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition with an excerpt from her novel manuscript “Madonna in the Ruins”. Khan has also contributed a text to the exhibition catalogue. At this event, the author will read from a recent work.

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