The Bowling Green Kiwanis will meet on Thursday at the Wood County Senior Center, 140 S Grove St. The public is welcome to attend. The meeting starts at noon and lunch is available starting at 11:30 a.m.
This week the club welcomes speaker Marianne Jungmaier, Max Kade Writer in Residence at Bowling Green State University. Her topic of discussion will be From Austria to the World: Novels, Poems and Stories.
Jungmaier was born in Linz, Austria. After studying journalism and media and working as a literary editor, translator and video editor, she became a freelance author and artist in 2011. She works in language, collage, photography and other artistic media. She has published two novels, three books of poetry, and a book of short stories.
Research, readings and residencies have taken her to many countries, including India, Pakistan, Italy, Germany, Iceland, Scotland, Nepal, Serbia, Brazil, the USA, and Czechia. Her prize-winning debut novel Das Tortenprotokoll (The Cake Protocol), which appeared in 2015, tells of a young woman who returns from the city to her small village for her grandmother’s funeral, only to discover a family secret that changes how she sees her past.
The Bowling Green Kiwanis Club is dedicated to improving the lives of children in the Bowling Green community. For more information, go to www.kiwanisbg.org.
