Sheridan Marshall spoke to Kaśka Bryla about becoming an author, her work across different literary genres, and the contemporary Austrian literary scene.
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.
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.
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.
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.