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Great stories and ideas travel and translate well. We hope you will enjoy browsing this site to find trusted, expert, independent recommendations of German-language books that will suit anglophone readers. Books which we recommend benefit from guaranteed financial support for their translation into English.

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Jury recommendations: autumn 2024

We are very pleased to share our autumn 2024 selection with you. Our expert jury handpicked these fiction and nonfiction titles from a pool of around a hundred submissions submitted to us by their publishers.

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After the Wall

Shaun Whiteside looks at how the idea of the German Democratic Republic continues to inspire writers and readers.

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Translator interview: Alexandra Roesch

NBG intern Sarah Wolbach interviews translator Alexandra Roesch about her career in translation, her recent translation of Stefanie vor Schulte’s Boy with Black Rooster and what she’d like to translate in the future.

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Celebrating Four Years of Translators Aloud

As YouTube channel Translators Aloud celebrates four years of providing a space for translators to read their work, founders Charlie Coombe and Tina Kover spoke to New Books in German about the channel’s success, translator working conditions and the future of both the channel and the profession.

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