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What does it take to run a literary festival? An interview with Rosie Goldsmith

April 1, 2026 / Sheridan Marshall

Sheridan Marshall speaks to Rosie Goldsmith, founder and director of the European Writers’ Festival, about the festival’s 2026 programme and the importance of collaboration in successfully running a pan-european event.

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The Pulse of Spring Literature: The Leipzig Book Fair Prize

March 18, 2026 / Sheridan Marshall

Sheridan Marshall guides us through the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the 2026 shortlist, featuring New Books in German recommendations.

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‘There is no such thing as objective experience . . . Like a kaleidoscope, the gaze falls on details from different angles, forming patterns that shift depending on how one looks.’ An Interview with Julia Franck

January 5, 2026 / Sheridan Marshall

New books in German speaks to Julia Franck about her book Welten auseinander, her shift from fiction to biography and growing up in a divided nation

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Where Poetry Meets the Novel: The Lyric Voices Shaping German Fiction

November 25, 2025 / Sheridan Marshall

Sheridan Marshall, NBG’s Editorial Consultant, highlights some of the poet-novelists we have featured recently on the website.

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‘Creating a stage to talk about translation’ – an interview with Simon Pare

November 11, 2025 / Anna Compton

New Books in German speaks to literary translator Simon Pare about his career, communities of translators and making translation more theatrical.

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A Year on the Magic Mountain

November 11, 2025 / Anna Compton

New Books in German speaks to literary translator Simon Pare about translating Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain and blogging about his work.

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Publishing Beautiful Books and Building a Loyal Readership: an Interview with Prototype

September 16, 2025 / Sheridan Marshall

New Books in German talks to Prototype’s Jess Chandler and Astrid Alben about publishing beautiful books in translation

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