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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Intern interview: Tayiba Sulaiman
Recent intern Tayiba reflects on her time with New Books in German
‘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.
Internship interview: Sarah Wolbach
/ Sarah Wolbach
Recent intern Sarah Wolbach reflects on her stint with New Books in German
“I get a lot of joy from the âissue resolvingâ stage.” An interview with Jamie Lee Searle
/ Tayiba Sulaiman
An interview with translator Jamie Lee Searle
“I am often as surprised by the final twist as my readers are” Top-selling author Sebastian Fitzek talks to his translator Jamie Bulloch
/ Jamie Bulloch
Best-selling thriller writer Sebastian Fitzek talks to his translator Jamie Bulloch
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 Taylorâs 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 whatâs exciting in German lit
Black Forest Investigations
/ Sarah Hemens
Translator Jamie Bulloch speaks to Sarah Hemens about the Black Forest Investigations series by Oliver Bottini and the joy of translating a good crime novel.
Translator interview: Alexandra Roesch
/ Sarah Wolbach
NBG intern Sarah Wolbach interviews translator Alexandra Roesch about her career in translation, her recent translation of Stefanie vor Schulte's Boy with Black Rooster and what she'd like to translate in the future.
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