Putting good books centre stage – an interview with Gunvor Schmidt from the German Publishers and Booksellers Association
/ Sarah Hemens
NBG speaks to Gunvor Schmidt about the German Book Prize and German Non-Fiction Prize.
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“All you need is a poem to have a rich cultural and linguistic experience!” – an interview with champion of creative translation and language learning Dr Charlotte Ryland
/ Charlotte Ryland, Gwen Choi
Charlotte Ryland is Director of the Stephen Spender Trust and founding Director of the Queen’s College Translation Exchange (Oxford), organisations dedicated to promoting language-learning, multilingualism and translation.
Stories from the sea
/ Sarah Hemens
NBG interviews German Book Prize nominated author Marie Gamillscheg
The appeal of German Language and Culture
/ Yana Ellis
Translator Yana Ellis interviews Dr Seán Williams from the University of Sheffield about German language, literature and culture. Seán also discusses his recent conversation with Benjamin Quaderer, author of Forever the Alps which was included in this year's New Books In German spring selection of the best new titles in German-language fiction and non-fiction.
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Interview with Yael Inokai
Sheridan Marshall spoke to author Yael Inokai about her latest novels and writing journey so far.
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Interview with Kaśka Bryla
Sheridan Marshall spoke to Kaśka Bryla about becoming an author, her work across different literary genres, and the contemporary Austrian literary scene.
Dinçer Güçyeter, winner of the 2023 Leipzig Book Fair Prize, speaks to NBG
/ Sheridan Marshall
Sheridan Marshall interviews Germany’s new literary superstar
Know Your IBC!
/ Gwendoline Choi
Gwendoline Choi interviews Dr Andrea Capovilla, Director of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre. The Centre provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholarship and debate on Austrian literature and culture with generous support from the Austrian Cultural Forum.
Kaffeepause mit… Rosie Goldsmith, European Literature Network
/ Sheridan Marshall
Rosie (nicknamed ‘Rosie the Riveter’) talks to New Books in German about launching two literary magazines at once, the pleasures of Austrian literature and what's next on her busy schedule.
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