Tag: Switzerland

“Writing, for me, has always meant having to go elsewhere”

October 1, 2025 / Jamie Lee Searle

Translator Jamie Lee Searle interviews author Kim de l’Horizon about their award-winning debut Blutbuch which was published in English this August.

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‘All the everyday things…you leave it all behind’ – an interview with Gabriela Stöckli of Translation House Looren

March 31, 2025 / 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.

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The journey from Blutbuch to Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

March 27, 2025

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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Connection, culture and crime – a conversation with Joachim B. Schmidt

January 17, 2025 / Sarah Hemens

New Books in German talks with bestselling and award-winning author Joachim B. Schmidt about his writing career, the role of writing in integrating into a new society, and how crime fiction can be used for social critique.

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