Spring 24: Nonfiction overview
/ Sheridan Marshall
An overview of our jury’s nonfiction choices for spring 2024
An overview of our jury’s nonfiction choices for spring 2024
Alexandra Roesch interviews author Jackie Thomae and her translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
read article...NBG spoke to Lukas Maisel about his atmospheric and mesmerising novella Tanner’s Earth, on mastering a craft, and on what it is that is magical about fiction.
NBG interviews German Book Prize nominated author Marie Gamillscheg
Sheridan Marshall spoke to author Yael Inokai about her latest novels and writing journey so far.
read article...What Concerns Us scrutinises gender roles within our society, examining what it means to be a mother and the nature of femininity, as well as how to remain independent in a variety of different types of relationship. New Books in German speaks to the book's author and translator in advance of the publication of this punchy contemporary read in English.
read article...‘But as many Jewish authors now discovered, even authorship could be stolen.’
read article...Berlin-based, British-born author and activist Sharon Dodua Otoo speaks to New Books in German about her novel Adas Raum, which is forthcoming in English as Ada's Realm.
read article...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.
read article...Author Asal Dardan talks to critical theorist and public philosopher Eva von Redecker about Eva's book A Revolution for Life, described by the publisher as '..a new criticism of capitalism - and a declaration of love for human action.'
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