Recommendations Spring 2022
We are delighted to share with you the books chosen by our jury for Spring 2022. The books we have chosen for you are outstanding examples of their genre and recommended for English-language readers.
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Not easy but glorious: translating a book for the first time
/ Jo Heinrich
Jo Heinrich tells us about her first experience of tackling a full length book translation. Jo's translation of Katja Oskamp's Marzahn Mon Amour is out now with Peirene Press.
read article...Recommendations Autumn 21
Welcome to our recommendations for Autumn 2021. As ever, the books displayed below have been selected by UK and US juries as examples of brilliant, original writing deemed to have a high chance of success with an anglophone readership. All books here are guaranteed financial support for their translation into English if the translation rights are bought by an English-language publisher.
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Monsters Like Us
/ Helen Nurse
New Books in German talks with Professor Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow of New College Oxford, about translating the work of Ulrike Almut Sandig.
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Interview with translator Shaun Whiteside
/ Helen Nurse
New Books in German met for a chat with CEATL President Shaun Whiteside at the London Book Fair
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Finding an Untaken Frequency …
/ Helen Nurse
New Books in German talks with Professor Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow of New College Oxford, about her award-winning translations of the poets Durs Grünbein and Evelyn Schlag and the delicate art of translating poetry.
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Working with New Books in German – interview with intern Helen Nurse
/ Helen Nurse
Translator and teacher Helen talks to NBG about her time working with us
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How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook
/ Sarah Hemens
‘But as many Jewish authors now discovered, even authorship could be stolen.’
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Burning the Palace: Women Writing Austria
/ Eleanor Updegraff
From Elfriede Jelinek to Ingeborg Bachmann, Marianne Fritz to Friederike Mayröcker, the Austrian literary canon includes many celebrated women writers. Known for their often postmodern, subversive approaches – to both style and substance – they have helped secure this Alpine nation an impact on German-language literature that its size might belie.
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German Non-Fiction Prize 2022
/ Sarah Hemens
As the official English-language media partner for the German Non-fiction Prize 2022, we are delighted to announce the shortlisted books.
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DE → EN – Enjoy in English
/ Sarah Hemens
This regular page brings you a selection of German-language titles that have just been, or are soon to be, published in English. We cover fiction, crime, nonfiction, children's and YA and poetry.
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Berlin in Books
/ John Owen
Mon Amour – but what is Marzahn like? And what other books take us deeper into Berlin? Bookseller and translator John Owen takes to the S-Bahn and the bookshop to find out.
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Collaborative work: Translating and copyediting the Bureau of Past Management
/ Angela Hirons
The Bureau of Past Management, a novel that shows how Nazi-era crimes resonate to this day, is published by V&Q Books. 'A bold and absorbing novel (…) translated sensitively by Abigail Wender' says the Irish Times. Angela Hirons, who copyedited the translation, interviewed its translator, Abigail Wender, for New Books in German.
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