Daniel Kehlmann is one of the most successful authors writing in German today, with his debut 'Measuring the World' an international bestseller. And humour is central to his writing. He talks to NBG about irony, cliché and the international media's shock at encountering a funny German novel.
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By Heike Clemens LOOK was specifically curated to focus on the work of younger German illustrators for children
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Katharina Bielenberg, Associate Publisher at MacLehose Press, talks to NBG.
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By Katy Derbyshire ‘Let’s keep on painting flowers on the walls, watering the carpets and sliding down the bannisters of the literary community’
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Former NBG editor Sally-Ann Spencer reflects on the rising presence of German-language literature in English over the last two decades.
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'There is a wealth of German writing which is known through translation in many countries, but which never finds its way into English translation.'
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As New Books in German celebrates its twentieth birthday, one of the UK's most renowned and prolific translators and cherished long-time member of the NBG editorial committee celebrates her eightieth.
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Having won in the same year the great Austrian writer and poet would have turned 90, NBG talks to British author Sharon Dodua Otoo about receiving this year's Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
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