Jury recommendations: Autumn 2025
/ Sarah Hemens
Our Autumn 2025 selection features book titles from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, handpicked by our expert jury as particularly suitable for an international audience.
Tag: literary fiction
Ulrike Draesner on Channel Swimmer: Crossing the Distances of Life and Language
/ Sheridan Marshall
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.
German Book Prize 2025 – the nominations
/ Sarah Hemens
New Books in German is pleased to present the titles nominated for the German Book prize 2025
Counteracting canonisation in literature – an interview with Dr Maha El Hissy
/ Anna Compton
Independent literary scholar Dr Maha El Hissy speaks to NBG about her work and the Goethe-Institut’s ‘Accidental Portents’ project, which she curated in 2024
Playing Fair
/ Gemma Craig Sharples
Literary translation can often be underpaid, misunderstood, and invisible—but 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.
‘A coup de foudre’ – publishing Iris Wolff in English translation
/ Sarah Escritt
Iris Wolff, Ruth Martin and founder of Moth Books, Monique Charlesworth, speak to New Books in German.
‘But when, if not now, is the time for big issues?’
/ Sheridan Marshall
Friederike Barakat, Foreign Rights Director at the Carl Hanser Verlag, speaks to NBG about Hanser’s Reading for Life series
So what happened next?
/ Jo Heinrich
Award-winning translator Jo Heinrich reflects on her career progression since the publication of her first book-length translation.
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DE → EN – Enjoy in English
/ Sarah Hemens
This regular page brings you a selection of German-language titles that have just been, or are soon to be, published in English. We cover fiction, crime, nonfiction, children’s and YA, short stories, poetry and dramatic arts.
‘All the everyday things…you leave it all behind’ – an interview with Gabriela Stöckli of Translation House Looren
/ Tayiba Sulaiman
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 human drama…takes centre stage.’ An interview with Robert Seethaler
/ Sarah Escritt
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.
The journey from Blutbuch to Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues
Translator Jamie Lee Searle reflects on her experience translating Kim de l’Horizon's Blutbuch, which won the 2022 German Book Prize.
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