‘Literature … can change how someone sees the world’
/ Feline Charpentier
NBG interviews Saša Stanišić
Tag: translation/translators
Internship interview: Feline Charpentier
/ Feline Charpentier, Sarah Hemens
Feline Charpentier reflects on her recent internship with the New Books in German project.
German Non-Fiction Prize 2026 – the nominations
/ Sarah Hemens
From 239 submissions, the jury for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2026 has shortlisted eight outstanding titles for the award.
Enjoy in English Spring 2026
/ 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 essays.
Where Poetry Meets the Novel: The Lyric Voices Shaping German Fiction
/ Sheridan Marshall
Sheridan Marshall, NBG’s Editorial Consultant, highlights some of the poet-novelists we have featured recently on the website.
‘Creating a stage to talk about translation’ – an interview with Simon Pare
/ Anna Compton
New Books in German speaks to literary translator Simon Pare about his career, communities of translators and making translation more theatrical.
A Year on the Magic Mountain
/ Anna Compton
New Books in German speaks to literary translator Simon Pare about translating Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain and blogging about his work.
‘You don’t have to be Damien Hirst, but you do need to be fairly determined.’ Steph Morris on the monthly German translators’ workshop and on his translation work
/ Sarah Hemens
Steph Morris on the monthly German translator’s workshop and on his translation workSteph Morris on the monthly German translator’s workshop and on his translation work
Internship interview: Anna Compton
Recent intern Anna Compton reflects on her work with New Books in German
“He found his vocation in Germany, he found his voice in Mexico” – an interview with Tim Heyman, the Managing Director of the B. Traven literary estate
/ Sarah Hemens
We spoke to Tim Heyman, the Managing Director of B. Traven’s literary estate, about the author’s life and work.
“Writing, for me, has always meant having to go elsewhere”
/ 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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