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.
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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.
Austria: Guest of Honour at the Leipzig Book Fair 2023
A focus on our Austrian jury selections due to Austria's status as Guest of Honour at the Leipzig Book Fair 2023
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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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Robert Menasse – The Capital
/ Jamie Bulloch
Translator Jamie Bulloch reflects on Robert Menasse’s timely novel about the European project, winner of the 2017 German Book Prize
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Mareike Fallwickl: From Literary Blogger to Author (and Back)
/ Mareike Fallwickl, Tilman Winterling, Rachel Ward
Until the publication of her acclaimed debut novel this year, Austrian author Mareike Fallwickl was known primarily for her book blog. Here, fellow blogger Tilman Winterling explores what happens when a blogger who ‘delights in hatchet jobs’ turns to print.
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Triangular Talks: An Interview with Jorghi Poll (Vienna)
/ Rebecca DeWald
By Rebecca Dewald
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Combating Cliché: An Interview with Daniel Kehlmann
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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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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