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German Author of Children’s Books to Visit UNCG

GREENSBORO - Award-winning German author Karin Gündisch will read at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro on Friday, Sept. 12. Gündisch writes children’s books, including “Im Land der Schokolade und Bananen” and “Das Paradis liegt in Amerika.”

Her latest book, “How I Became an American,” is about a German immigrant in 1902. When 10-year-old Johann Bonfert moves to Youngstown, Ohio, from a small town in Austria-Hungary, the change is overwhelming. Overnight, his entire world is turned upside down as he and his family struggle with new jobs, a new language and new customs.

Karin Gündisch, herself an emigrant from Siebenbürgen, Rumania, describes the universal experience of transition and adjustment to a new land. In 2002, “How I Became an American” won the Batchelder Award for the best translation of a children's book originally published in a foreign language.

The reading in German and English will be held in the Maple Room, Elliott University Center, at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

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