30.10. Tomer Gardi in Bremen, 7:30 p.m.

Deliver

The novel was written in collaboration with Anne Birkenhauer on the translation.

Filmon, who fled Eritrea for Tel Aviv, works as a delivery driver. He wants to save enough money to join his wife and daughter in Berlin. His job is always at risk; he doesn’t have a work permit and drives under a false name. His wife and daughter are learning German from Nina at the education center. The teacher travels to Delhi for an exchange semester, where she falls in love with Ramón, an Argentine. The narrator travels to Istanbul to blow the prize money from a literary award after pulling off a scam. And in Buenos Aires, Ramón’s mother must come to terms with her son’s absence. *Liefern* is a literary journey around the world in six episodes and a celebration of the art of storytelling as only Tomer Gardi can deliver it: profound and humorous, with political sensitivity and literary verve.


Host: Sebastian Möller

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Klett-Cotta, 2026

Kulturwerkstatt westend
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28219 Bremen

Tomer Gardi

Born in 1974 at Kibbutz Dan in Galilee; currently lives in Berlin. He studied literature and education in Jerusalem, Berlin, and Be’er Sheva. Tomer Gardi writes partly in Hebrew and partly in German. His debut novel, *Broken German* (2016), was adapted for the stage by the Schauspielhaus Graz and the Schauspielhaus Köln. In 2022, he received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his novel *Eine runde Sache*. For *Liefern*, Tomer Gardi spent over three years conducting on-site research in six cities—his novel is on the longlist for the 2026 German Book Prize.
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