...but stones can't speak

About the Book

none

About the Author

Lauren Friesen is the David M. French Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan Flint. He has also translated Hermann Sudermann’s comedy The Storm Komrade Sokrates. His other publications include a volume of poetry, plays and analytical essays on Hermann Sudermann, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Anna Deveare Smith and Tennessee Williams. In 1998 he received the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for excellence in theatre. Magdalena Katt is the Senior Lecturer in English at Käthe Kollwitz Kolleg in Hagen, Germany. She collaborated with Lauren Friesen in translating Hermann Sudermann’s comedy and she has also translated Friesen’s two act play Rothko. Her home city, Hagen, was also Carlo Ross’s home and she has personal familiarity with many of the details in this novel.