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June 2012
as of June 2012, Ritti Soncco will be back in Perú to work on her second novel "Munay". Follow her on her blog!
May 23
"Faszination Perú" - a benefit reading for the kindergarten San Juan de Lurigancho (Lima-Peru). Hirschstraße 103, 7pm
March 29
Reading of "The Double Closet" at the Lesbenberatung Berlin
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Chasing Hugh Thomson to London
Last week I was London – again. I flew over for a very special reason … one which trails back to Perú. Yes!
On my first day after landing in Lima, my father and I went to the bookstore Iberia in Miraflores, at the top of Parque Kennedy, near the Curacao, around the corner from the artesan market. This beautiful bookshop has an interesting sortiment of Spanish and English literature. I had a head full of jetlag and my Spanish was rusty, but this being my first day back, I decided I should start practising the line I intended to use throughout my travels: I told a surprised attendant that I was a writer travelling through Perú to research for my novel. Smiling, he said he looked forward to reading it and asked me what kind of literature I needed for my research. I dropped a few themes: shamanism, Andean cosmology, the Q’eros people, psychoactive plants, Peruvian cultures. He led me to the corner stored with these themes and I lost myself.
Bookstores and ancient ruins are one and the same thing. I’m still crazy studying whatever Johnny Depp’s profession is in The Ninth Gate: some kind of know-it-all on the history of books… To be a book specialist, a book historian: an Indiana Jones of books.
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