Novellas and Short Stories

NBG‘s recommendation list celebrates a wide range of writing forms; it isn’t just limited to novels and non-fiction studies. Below you’ll find a list of short story collections and novellas which have recently made the NBG recommendation list.

Short stories

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Novellas

For the purposes of the list, we’ve defined the novella as a short novel, so here you’ll find works of fiction which are under 200 pages.

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‘It’s totally fine to be pop.’ An interview with author Leif Randt

Leif Randt, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1983, is a freelance writer who divides his time between Berlin and Maintal, near Frankfurt. He has written four prize winning novels. His latest, Allegro Pastel, tells the story of two freelance creatives in their thirties, Jerome Daimler and Tanja Arnheim. It was selected by Ijoma Mangold for the Mörike Prize of the City of Fellbach. It was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. The film of the book is shortly to be released. He found time between working on the film and on his next novel to talk to New Books in German.

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