Author Sara Gmuer sat down with New Books in German to talk about language, music and the characters in her novel, Eighteenth Floor, one of NBG's recent recommendations.
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As the much loved translator’s retreat gears up to celebrate its 20th anniversary, we spoke to Managing Director Gabriela Stöckli about the house and landscape, creating community, and fostering linguistic diversity.
The Café with No Name, the latest novel by International Booker Prize listed author, Robert Seethaler, has recently been published in English translation by Katy Derbyshire. In advance of his visit to the UK to speak about his book, he found time to catch up with New Books in German.
New Books in German talks with bestselling and award-winning author Joachim B. Schmidt about his writing career, the role of writing in integrating into a new society, and how crime fiction can be used for social critique.
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Journalist, novelist, and poet, Lin Hierse is one of the most exciting emerging voices in the German-language literary scene. Jon Cho-Polizzi interviews her for New Books in German.
Swiss-Romanian author, Dana Grigorcea, speaks to New Books in German about her prize-winning novel, Dracula Park, in Imogen Taylor’s English translation in 2023.
Elias Hirschl spoke to us about the novel, his creative practice and the future of writing.
As the official English-language media partner for the German Non-fiction Prize 2024, we are delighted to announce the winning book below and to provide an overview of all shortlisted books.
Festival curator Rosie Goldsmith takes time out from event preparations to talk to us about the upcoming festival which she describes as a ‘gathering place for anyone interested in European literature, translation and publishing in the UK’.
An overview of our jury’s nonfiction choices for spring 2024
Alexandra Roesch interviews author Jackie Thomae and her translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
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