Book Launch: The Palace on the Higher Hill & Eden à l’Aube

Karim will read from his work in French and English, and a discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and a signing over drinks.

This launch event forms part of Kitabat, an ad hoc series of events celebrating exciting new writing by contemporary Arab authors for Berlin audiences, focusing particularly on writers whose work is not well known in Germany.

Karim Kattan is a writer from Bethlehem, Palestine. In French, his books include two novels, Le Palais des deux collines (2021) and L’Éden à l’aube (2024), both of which were published by the Tunis-based Éditions Elyzad and a collection of poems, Hortus Conclusus (2025) published by L'extrême contemporain. His writing has been published in various outlets, including Le Monde, Libération, AOC, in literary journals, and in several collective works. He also writes in English; his English texts have appeared in The Paris Review, The Baffler, Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Funambulist, and more.