Josef Haslinger and Kyoko Yoshida on institutions of creative writing

Josef Haslinger (b.1955 in Zwettl, Austria). Essayist, novelist and playwright, often concerned with controversial topics in the contemporary political landscape.  Opernball (1995), a best-seller in Germany, was translated into thirteen languages and adapted for television. Das Vaterspiel (2000) portrays Holocaust survivors and perpetrators living in the United States. Since 1996 professor of literary aesthetics at the Leipzig Institute of Literature in Germany.

After eighteen years in Fukuoka, seven in Kyoto, and five in Milwaukee, Kyoko Yoshida is now based in Yokohama and teaches at Keio University. During spring term 2006 she is a visiting fellow at the Program of Literary Arts at Brown University. Her stories have appeared in Chelsea, The Massachusetts Review, The Cream City Review, The Western Humanities Review, The Crab Orchard Review, and others. Her story “Manualscript” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Photographs by David Wilder

Josef Haslinger and Kyoko Yoshida on institutions of creative writing

"Where did you learn how to write?"
By Josef Haslinger

Of Being an "American Writer."
By Kyoko Yoshida

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