Felicitas Hoppe's literary work includes short stories, novels, children's books and essays. In addition to her literary writing, she regularly contributes to newspapers, magazines and radio. Hoppe travels, writes and teaches around the world and addresses this in many of her works, such as Pigafetta (1999), Verbrecher und Versager (2004) and Prawda. An American Journey (2018). Her work has been awarded the Brothers Grimm Prize, the Pied Piper Literature Prize in her home town of Hameln, the Grand Prize of the German Literature Fund and the Georg Büchner Prize, among others. In spring 2024, Hoppe was honored with the Berlin Literature Prize of the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung and an associated guest professorship at the Freie Universität zu Berlin. At the invitation of Dartmouth College, Hoppe will read from her award-winning texts and tell the story of how a couch potato became a world traveler and a dreamer became an adventurer.

(Reading and talk in German)