"Guests and Ghosts" and The Friedrich Ulfers Prize 2026

Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30 PM

Goethe-Institut New York

On Tuesday, October 27, at 6:30 PM, the Festival Neue Literatur partners present the 2026 Friedrich Ulfers Prize and the Festival Neue Literatur event "Guests and Ghosts.” This year’s Friedrich Ulfers Prize will be awarded to the author and literary translator Peter Wortsman. Priska Juschka (Director, Lichtundfire) will deliver the laudation. "Guests and Ghosts” will feature readings by and a conversation among the German-language authors Michael Lentz, Tanja Paar, and Laura Vogt, and the U.S. author Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The conversation will be moderated by literary translator Alta Price, who curated this year's festival. > Details