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…another great adventure ;o)

I was honoured to meet Mrs Margrith Zinggeler in the occasion of the well-known literature days in Solothurn. Mrs Zinggeler contacted me nearly one year ago and we stayed in contact for the coming months via e-mail. During this time she presented my written work at various conventions, I felt really honoured about that, you can read about that in the topic „University of Michigan“.

This much more, that we finally could match a meeting here, as Mrs Zinggeler has Swiss roots. We met in a restaurant and I got interviewed by her about my writing, how my stories emerge, how I use to write, my influences, about my italian roots and where I really feel at home, what kind of stories do fascinating me, which people fascinates me, etc.

I told her as well about my vision of a filming of my book, how it should come out and with who I would like to realize it, I can imagine a kind of documentary by interviewing the protagonists of the book, with some cuttings as flash-backs from archives material. I’m aware, that the production of a movie goes into millions, but I’d like to see a low-budget production, in the meaning „reduce to the max“, so if there’s any blog-reader out there interested to emerge in the world of producing movies/documentaries, don’t hesitate to contact me ;o)

Margrith and me: we had a wonderful talk together,
at the end I was given from her a packet of wild rice
from Minnesota, where she lives and I gave her
swiss chocolate and italian delicacies

Do you remember sometime in June, I told you about Professor Dr. Zinggelers study about german literature of Second@s?

Yesterday Mrs Zinggeler wrote to me and informed me, that she would hold her finished written lecture with the title „From Multiculturalism to Hybridity: Ethnic Diversification in Recent Swiss Literature“ at the convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, which will be held from 8. – 11.1o.09 in Utah. On this occasion she will introduce  „Die Papierfabrik“ and my written work.

Mrs Zinggeler expressed as well, that I contributed with my work the changes in Swiss-German literature scene…

I’m completely blown away! I feel extremely honoured of this acknowledgment, I never dreamt in a million years that my written work would reach something like this in the States!

Thank you very much Mrs Zinggeler!

In these days an interesting inquiry via Mail reached our president Ivica Petrusic of our Second@s Plus party. It was Mrs Dr. Zinggeler, professor of german language at the Eastern Michigan University, explaining that she likes to do a study about german literature of the Second@s and was looking for authors of them.

Ivica asked me kindly to contact Mrs Zinggeler and I sent her afterwards a signed copy of my book „Die Papierfabrik“ and we would keep in touch.  She herself is preparing her book of her study, which will be published at the beginning of 2011.

I’m really looking forward to a signed copy of her book in my p.o.box. I’m always very excited to get a new born book!

Good luck Mrs Zinggeler, my fingers are crossed for you!

lazy coffee-break in Georgetown-Washington…I couldn’t imagine what would
expect me on my return home…every mission has a mission!

This is a very rare picture! My auntie Anna from Argentina came for holiday and celebrated her 75th birthday at my parents home together with her brothers and sisters!

auntie Maria, uncle Francesco, uncle Raffaele, auntie Anna and my mum

Do you remember the writer colleague of mine, Karin Ammann?

Well, she recently published her new book „Die Poesie des Montags“, it’s a nice little book with many stories about Monday. She asked me, if I would do the proofreading before going definetely to print? Of course I did!

At her home, we sat for hours at her wooden table and my eagle-eyes read word by word the written flags, meanwhile Karin spoilt me with Amarone and cheese! And of course, she gave me a signed copy of her new book! More infos about Karin: www.karinammann.ch

The election is over and our party Second@s Plus has reached a respectable result with 26417 votes in the canton Aargau or in other words with 1 % we have reached our target and have given a face to our party and our interests. Of course this votes aren’t enough for a seat in the national council, but we don’t aim for this, because we are not experts of politics. We have our mission and will follow it in the future!

You can read my speech, take a look left on my blog, in the blogroll! It’s only in german, if you need more information you can contact me!

greets, Sina

Ruedi Josuran & Karin Ammann introducing Ruedi’s new book „Von Mann zu Mann“