Jury recommendations: spring 2025
Our spring 2025 selection features book titles from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, handpicked by our expert jury as particularly suitable for an international audience.
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Innovative texts that resonate with readers: an Interview with Residenz Verlag
/ Sheridan Marshall
An interview with Residenz Verlag
Interview with Katharina Picandet, Edition Nautilus
/ Sheridan Marshall
Sheridan Marshall interviews Katharina Picandet, Rights Manager at Edition Nautilus, discussing the publishing house’s unique history and ethos, the challenges for contemporary publishing, and the stand-out titles on Nautilus’s list.
Novellas and Short Stories
/ Tayiba Sulaiman
An overview of the short story collections and novellas which have recently made the NBG recommendation list.
‘One of the most exciting emerging voices in the German-language literary scene’ Jon Cho-Polizzi interviews Lin Hierse
/ Jon Cho-Polizzi
Journalist, novelist, and poet, Lin Hierse is one of the most exciting emerging voices in the German-language literary scene. Jon Cho-Polizzi interviews her for New Books in German.
Interview with Swiss author Gianna Molinari
/ Sarah Wolbach
New Books in German speaks to Giana Molinari about her work.
German Book Prize 2024: The Longlist
We are delighted to announce the 20 titles nominated (aka longlisted) by the jury for this year’s German Book Prize 2024.
Interview with Dracula Park author Dana Grigorcea
/ Sheridan Marshall
Swiss-Romanian author, Dana Grigorcea, speaks to New Books in German about her prize-winning novel, Dracula Park, in Imogen Taylor’s English translation in 2023.
Putting Words First: an interview with Publisher and Translator Stefan Tobler
/ Regan Mies
Stefan Tobler talks with Regan Mies about fifteen years of And Other Stories press, translating Lutz Seiler, and what’s exciting in German lit
After the Wall
/ Shaun Whiteside
Shaun Whiteside looks at how the idea of the German Democratic Republic continues to inspire writers and readers.
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