The Ilse Schwepcke Prize â the worldâs most valuable award for travel writing by women â was created to celebrate the legacy of Ilse Schwepcke, a publisher who championed stories of exploration and discovery. We sat down with Dr Barbara Schwepcke to talk about how the prize came to be, what it stands for, and the importance of womenâs perspectives on travel.
Steph Morris on the monthly German translator’s workshop and on his translation workSteph Morris on the monthly German translator’s workshop and on his translation work
Recent intern Anna Compton reflects on her work with New Books in German
We spoke to Tim Heyman, the Managing Director of B. Travenâs literary estate, about the authorâs life and work.
Translator Jamie Lee Searle interviews author Kim de lâHorizon about their award-winning debut Blutbuch which was published in English this August.
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NBG speaks to Ulrike Draesner about her novel, Kanalschwimmer, newly translated as Channel Swimmer by Rebecca Braun and published by Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.
Independent literary scholar Dr Maha El Hissy speaks to NBG about her work and the Goethe-Institutâs âAccidental Portentsâ project, which she curated in 2024
Literary translation can often be underpaid, misunderstood, and invisibleâbut Fair brings it to the centre of the story. In this conversation with NBG, Jen Calleja reflects on how the book took shape and what it means to be both welcoming ringmaster and party-pooper.
Iris Wolff, Ruth Martin and founder of Moth Books, Monique Charlesworth, speak to New Books in German.
An interview with Verlag Klaus Wagenbach
Leif Randt, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1983, is a freelance writer who divides his time between Berlin and Maintal, near Frankfurt. He has written four prize winning novels. His latest, Allegro Pastel, tells the story of two freelance creatives in their thirties, Jerome Daimler and Tanja Arnheim. It was selected by Ijoma Mangold for the Mörike Prize of the City of Fellbach. It was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. The film of the book is shortly to be released. He found time between working on the film and on his next novel to talk to New Books in German.
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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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