Tag: Austria
Stories from the sea
/ Sarah Hemens
NBG interviews German Book Prize nominated author Marie Gamillscheg
Interview with Kaśka Bryla
Sheridan Marshall spoke to Kaśka Bryla about becoming an author, her work across different literary genres, and the contemporary Austrian literary scene.
Know Your IBC!
/ Gwendoline Choi
Gwendoline Choi interviews Dr Andrea Capovilla, Director of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre. The Centre provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholarship and debate on Austrian literature and culture with generous support from the Austrian Cultural Forum.
A focus on Austrian literature
Here’s where you’ll find info on all things Austria – including our jury selections and interviews with Austrian authors
Kaffeepause mit… Rosie Goldsmith, European Literature Network
/ Sheridan Marshall
Rosie (nicknamed ‘Rosie the Riveter’) talks to New Books in German about launching two literary magazines at once, the pleasures of Austrian literature and what's next on her busy schedule.
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Story of a life with books
/ Sheridan Marshall
Tanja Howarth talks to New Books in German about her career.
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Translating Eva Menasse and Bernhard Schlink: An Interview with Charlotte Collins
/ Helen Nurse
New Books in German met with Charlotte Collins to talk about translating Eva Menasse and Bernhard Schlink. We also chatted about her Zoom translation café, and the Facebook group Translators & Cancer.
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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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Sense of an Ending ? – an interview with Norbert Gstrein
/ Eleanor Updegraff
Eleanor Updegraff interviews award- winning Austrian author Norbert Gstrein. In this wide-ranging interview, they discuss morality in narrators, writing from a sense of being an outsider, and which authors have had the greatest influence on his work.
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