What We Write to Each Other

What We Write to Each Other - Beyond the Letter Exchange. Tamanna Easar & Yael Inokai

In partnership with Untold Narratives (London) and Weiter Schreiben e.V. (Berlin), the foundation KfW Stiftung is supporting a network for women writers in Afghanistan and the diaspora through the Untold Literatures – Paranda Network programme. In a series of literary events, the authors and their German partner writers will have their say. The events strengthen intercultural dialogue and give visibility to marginalised perspectives.

What We Write to Each Other - Beyond the letter exchange. Tamanna Easar & Yael Inokai

Two women, one correspondence: As part of the project Untold Narratives – Weiter Schreiben. Correspondence with Afghan Authors an author from the Paranda Network and a German writer engaged in an intensive letter exchange. Across borders, they wrote letters to one another—personal, poetic, political.

Now they are meeting for the first time. In a reading and discussion, they will offer insights into their correspondence, talk about writing, about closeness at a distance, and about how literature can open up spaces that would otherwise remain inaccessible.

A literary event about encounters and retelling unheard stories.

• Tuesday, 6 October 2026, Start: 18:30, Doors open at 18:00
• VILLA 102, Bockenheimer Landstraße 102, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

The event will be held in German. Contributions in Farsi-Dari will be translated simultaneously.

The project Untold Narratives – Weiter Schreiben. Correspondence with Afghan Authors is a collaboration between the foundation KfW Stiftung, Untold Narratives (London) and Weiter Schreiben (Berlin). 

More information can be found here. 

On 18. June 2026 another event in the series "What We Write to Each Other - Beyond the Letter Exchange. Batool Haidari & Marica Bodrožić" took place in the KfW Bankengruppe in Berlin. 

More information can be found here.

Image Credit:

01. (c) Fatemeh Hassani