We were lucky to grab Bov Bjerg during the lock down and ask him a few questions about his most recent novel, the story of a family in which three generations have taken their own lives, and why it would be well received in English translation.
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Jozef van der Voort interned with NBG in spring 2020. Here he shares his experiences of the internship and his favourite titles from our latest crop of reviews.
read article...Literary agent Tanja Howarth, and Project Director Sarah Hemens recall the infancy of New Books in German and look ahead to its future.
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In 2017 a group of young European thinkers, including Simon Strauß, formed the association ‘Arbeit an Europa’ (‘Working on Europe’) with the aim of exploring and developing the seemingly static ideas surrounding Europe and the European Union.
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Mikaela Pedlow, Assistant Editor at Harvill Secker, talks to us about translated fiction
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Translator Steph Morris talks Europe and translation
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Translator Jamie Bulloch reflects on Robert Menasse’s timely novel about the European project, winner of the 2017 German Book Prize
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A Tribute to Margot Bettauer Dembo, by Barbara Perlmutter
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The Rise of the Graphic Novel
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Schwein und Zeit By Fahim Amir Edition Nautilus September 2018, 208pp
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Lise Meitner: Pionierin des Atomzeitalters By David Rennert & Tanja Traxler Residenz Verlag October 2018, 224pp
read article...On prolific writer Sibylle Berg and her latest novel
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