{"title": "Katharina Rilling ● Lovely King Walter", "start": "2026-10-27T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sphères", "address": "Hardturmstrasse 66, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": "32.00", "price_to": "32.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Book launch of «Lovely King Walter», Katharina Rilling's literary debut, at Sphères in Zurich. The novel tells of Walter waiting at the remote Kurhotel Valcruna for Huyen, his fiancée from Vietnam, whom he knows only through a screen and has never touched. Between mountain peaks, red wine and Viagra, his waiting turns into an intoxication, mishaps pile up, and doubts grow loud – about the woman and about himself. Rilling, born in 1983 in Tübingen and living in Switzerland since 2002, worked for many years as a journalist, editor and author and founded her own communications agency in Zurich.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/katharina-rilling-lovely-king-walter-25558/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60c29eb27db9ae10a4f4ba5e7719feb2f1175ef94c724c80896310e39411e1be-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sphères", "address": "Hardturmstrasse 66, 8005 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Dana Vowinckel • Literatur", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kaufleuten Festsaal", "address": "Pelikanstrasse 18, 8001 Zürich", "price": "ab CHF 25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://kaufleuten.ch/event/dana-vowinckel-literatur", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "A literary event featuring Dana Vowinckel, who comes from Berlin. She presents her new novel \"Anton und Alma\", a love story about two young people from Berlin who must find their way in an increasingly divided world. The novel is nominated for the German Book Prize. The evening will be moderated by Nina Kunz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/dana-vowinckel-literatur-5936/", "official_url": "https://kaufleuten.ch/event/dana-vowinckel-literatur/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cda742003493ccf727a027e11aaeba4e7f318e17a36ac759e7247bdb1bdad767-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sofalesung: Ed Wige & Yves Raeber – Milch Lait Latte Mleko – AUSGEBUCHT", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/exile", "literature/fiction"], "description": "At this Sofalesung, a Swiss debut author presents her texts from a shared flat sofa or studio couch in a personal setting. Ed Wige reads from «Milch Lait Latte Mleko» (Verlag Die Brotsuppe 2026, translated from the French by Yves Raeber). Told through the eyes of a girl whose mother and she flee the war in Yugoslavia to Switzerland, the novel speaks of exile, the aftermath of war and family secrets. The French original won the Swiss Literature Prize in 2024.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sofalesung-ed-wige-yves-raeber-milch-lait-latte-mleko-ausgeb-59836/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/sofalesung-ed-wige-milch-lait-latte-mleko/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/172c5df413d68581b93248917cadc80ea3ca265d35227ebd0144bbf3d5ecc13a-600.webp"}]}