Sarah Buckmaster

‘It’s totally fine to be pop.’ An interview with author Leif Randt

Leif Randt, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1983, is a freelance writer who divides his time between Berlin and Maintal, near Frankfurt. He has written four prize winning novels. His latest, Allegro Pastel, tells the story of two freelance creatives in their thirties, Jerome Daimler and Tanja Arnheim. It was selected by Ijoma Mangold for the Mörike Prize of the City of Fellbach. It was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. The film of the book is shortly to be released. He found time between working on the film and on his next novel to talk to New Books in German.

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Interview with Arena Verlag’s Bianca Kuchenbrod

September is #WorldKidLitMonth, celebrating literature from around the world for young people, particularly in translation. To join in these celebrations, Claire Storey spoke to Bianca Kuchenbrod from German children’s publisher Arena Verlag. 

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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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