Interview with translator Shaun Whiteside
/ Helen Nurse
New Books in German met for a chat with CEATL President Shaun Whiteside at the London Book Fair
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Working with New Books in German – interview with intern Helen Nurse
/ Helen Nurse
Translator and teacher Helen talks to NBG about her time working with us
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How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook
/ Sarah Hemens
‘But as many Jewish authors now discovered, even authorship could be stolen.’
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Collaborative work: Translating and copyediting the Bureau of Past Management
/ Angela Hirons
The Bureau of Past Management, a novel that shows how Nazi-era crimes resonate to this day, is published by V&Q Books. 'A bold and absorbing novel (…) translated sensitively by Abigail Wender' says the Irish Times. Angela Hirons, who copyedited the translation, interviewed its translator, Abigail Wender, for New Books in German.
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25 years of New Books in German – Celebrating Our Interns
/ Sarah Buckmaster
Over the last 25-years of New Books in German, we have worked with many interns. In this article, Sarah Buckmaster catches up with seven individuals who have experienced the NBG internship to find out what they're doing now, and how they look back on their time with New Books in German.
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Kaffeepause mit…Dr Kat Hall, translator and crime reviewer
/ Annie Rutherford
We sat down with Dr Kat Hall to map the lay of the land in German crime fiction for our article on the German Krimi. We also found out a bit more about what Kat’s been working on herself, and how to let readers play detective…
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The German Crocodile
/ Sarah Hemens
Sarah Hemens interviews Ijoma Mangold, author of compelling memoir of growing up different, The German Crocodile. In the book, Iljoma Mangold, one of Germany's best literary critics, remembers his youth in 1970s Heidelberg and the new Federal Republic, and momentous visits in early adulthood to the USA and Nigeria.
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An Interview with Sharon Dodua Otoo
/ Lúcia Collischonn
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.
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World Kid Lit! An interview with Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp and Claire Storey
/ Sarah Rimmington
Ruth Ahmedzai-Kemp and Claire Storey are two of the team running the influential and wide-ranging World Kid Lit blog and site. Ahead of September's World Kit Lit Month, Sarah Rimmington interviews them for New Books in German:
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Sense of an Ending ? – an interview with Norbert Gstrein
/ Eleanor Updegraff
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.
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