Translator interview: Shelley Frisch
/ Sarah Hemens, Shelley Frisch
NBG talks to translator Shelley Frisch about some of her recent translation work, including Kafka, Billy Wilder, and an Auschwitz survivor’s memoir.
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Internship interview: Lizzy Kinch
TV documentary worker and translator Lizzy reflects on her recent internship with NBG.
‘Does there come a point when you consist of nothing but facades?’: an interview with Elias Hirschl
/ Eleanor Updegraff
Elias Hirschl spoke to us about the novel, his creative practice and the future of writing.
Publisher Interview: Susie Nicklin of The Indigo Press
Publisher Susie Nicklin speaks with Regan Mies about founding an independent press, the search for justice in contemporary fiction and forthcoming Indigo Press titles in translation.
Transformation: The European Writers’ Festival 2
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’.
Publisher Interview: Albert Eibl of Das vergessene Buch (DVB)
/ Regan Mies
Austrian publisher Albert Eibl speaks with Regan Mies about the mission of Das vergessene Buch Verlag (DVB), exile writers and the importance of “forgotten literature.”
Twenty years of writing reader reports for NBG
/ Feline Charpentier
Feline Charpentier looks back on two decades of writing reader reports for NBG.
Interview with literary translator Imogen Taylor
/ Lizzy Kinch
NBG interview translator Imogen Taylor
Interview with Jackie Thomae and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
/ Alexandra Roesch
Alexandra Roesch interviews author Jackie Thomae and her translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
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Translator interview: Lucy Jones ‘…it’s one of the best jobs in the world.’
/ Regan Mies
Regan Mies interviews Berlin-based translator Lucy Jones about Brigitte Reimann, outsider characters and two new German-language debuts.
Interview with Necati Öziri
/ Sheridan Marshall
The German Book Prize shortlisted author speaks to Sheridan Marshall about his novel Vatermal, writing for the stage and working as a dramaturge, and the political aspects of his writing.
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