Mention the Beat generation and most will think of Jack Kerouac, sexual liberation and mad dashes across the American West. Few would utter the name Jörg Fauser. But the Beat poets’ spirit of rebellion found expression too in the punks, political radicalism and squatting scene of Germany in the 1970s, with Fauser its literary pioneer.
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4th Estate hopes to harness the opportunities offered by translated fiction and is working to widen and develop its list. Before taking up her current role, Anna worked for seven years at Hamish Hamilton.
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Live through all wars. Cross all borders. To you I dedicate all gods and all rosaries, all burnings, all decapitated hopes, all stories.’
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Back in autumn 2007, NBG saw great potential in a new crime series by German author Volker Kutscher. ‘Villains galore!’, our reviewer exclaimed. Little did we know that exactly ten years later the series would find its way onto television screens across the world. Niall Sellar, who is translating the books for Sandstone Press, tells NBG his Babylon Berlin tale.
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‘All I wanted to do with that book was to ask questions,’ Benedict Wells told the audience as he launched the English version of his novel, 'The End of Loneliness'. We were fortunate enough to talk to the bestselling author and his translator Charlotte Collins and to ask a few more.
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With three bestselling novels under his belt, Benedict Wells is an outstanding representative of Germany’s new crop of young writers, with a knack for capturing the spirit of his generation. Anne Boden talks to the author about his writing and Berlin’s place in it.
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In June this year six translators from across the world gathered in Germany to discuss their versions of a novel by Christoph Ransmayr. Simon Pare, Ransmayr's English translator, shares his experience of the 'Atriumsgespräch'.
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Rebecca DeWald explores how collaborative translation helped bring Kafka’s work to audiences around the world.
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Sarah Cleave, Publishing Manager at Comma Press, talks to NBG Interview with Julia Herrele
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NBG interviews Marshall Yarbrough, member of the translators’ collective Cedilla & Co. Interview with Emma Rault
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