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LOOK! Children’s Illustrators in Germany
By Heike Clemens LOOK was specifically curated to focus on the work of younger German illustrators for children
read article...Publisher Focus: MacLehose Press
Katharina Bielenberg, Associate Publisher at MacLehose Press, talks to NBG.
read article...Translators Acting Up
By Katy Derbyshire ‘Let’s keep on painting flowers on the walls, watering the carpets and sliding down the bannisters of the literary community’
read article...Twenty Years of German Literature in Translation: A Survey
Former NBG editor Sally-Ann Spencer reflects on the rising presence of German-language literature in English over the last two decades.
read article...New Books in German Turns Twenty
'There is a wealth of German writing which is known through translation in many countries, but which never finds its way into English translation.'
read article...The Grande Dame of Literary Translation: Anthea Bell at Eighty
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.
read article...Take a Seat: An Interview with Sharon Dodua Otoo
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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