Fact and fiction in life stories: life writing and its narrative strategies

An exploration of fictionality and life writing.

Lectures, talks and seminars

Room 802, Von Zedlitz Building (VZ802)

Presented by

Speaker Bios

Zuzana Fonioková is Assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Literature, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Her research interests include narratology, autobiography and autofiction, and contemporary fiction; her current project explores innovative narrative strategies in life writing. In 2015 she published a book called Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch: Bending Facts in Unreliable and Unnatural Narration.


For more information contact: Adam Grener

adam.grener@vuw.ac.nz 04 463 6811