María Negroni: Miniatures

05.03.2025 / 19:00 – 21:30
With María Negroni

María Negroni (Literature Fellow 2024) is one of the most daring, original, and prolific writers in Argentina today. She is part of a rather small cohort of poets, novelists, and essayists bent on defying the surprisingly stable and narrow aesthetic boundaries of the established national literary tradition. Her literature expands our understanding of forms, archives, and writerly practices, placing them in close relation to music, the visual arts, the natural sciences, urban itineraries, and the histories of political activism and feminism. She is decidedly interested in exploring the limits of poetic language in order to reveal its precarious and unsettled potential before, beyond, underneath, and after the page, the book, and even the literary as social event. Without a doubt, over the last three decades, Negroni has produced one of the most consistent and singular literary projects across genres in Latin American letters. 

On March 5, Maria will read a selection of new poems, written since her arrival in Berlin in June 2024. Her forthcoming volume, Miniatures for Piano, is a tribute to the composer Arnold Schönberg and his musical miniatures, whose spiritual depth and condensation Maria seeks to capture in her own poetry.

Joining her for the evening will be poet, translator, and editor Aurelio Major, who will engage her in conversation.

Reading in Spanish, English, German
Conversation in English

daadgalerie, Oranienstrasse 161, 10969 Berlin
Free admission

Photo: Diana Pfammatter