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Kay Matter

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Kay Matter, born 1998 in Zurich, raised both in Zurich and Northern Italy, is the author of several plays and of the genre-bending literary non-fiction "Muskeln aus Plastik" (2024), the first book in the German-speaking world to deal with Long COVID Syndrome in a literary context – and a trans memoir. Kay Matter is a graduate of the playwriting program at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). His plays have won numerous awards and have been performed internationally. Most recently, he wrote a trilogy about transness and monstrosity for Schauspielhaus Zürich.

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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

by Jane Alison

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Panics

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The Sleepers

by Sophie Calle

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