New Books in German talks with Professor Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow of New College Oxford, about translating the work of Ulrike Almut Sandig.
Jo Heinrich tells us about her first experience of tackling a full length book translation. Jo's translation of Katja Oskamp's Marzahn Mon Amour is out now with Peirene Press.
The Bureau of Past Management, a novel that shows how Nazi-era crimes resonate to this day, is published by V&Q Books. 'A bold and absorbing novel (…) translated sensitively by Abigail Wender' says the Irish Times.
Angela Hirons, who copyedited the translation, interviewed its translator, Abigail Wender, for New Books in German.
Over the last 25-years of New Books in German, we have worked with many interns. In this article, Sarah Buckmaster catches up with seven individuals who have experienced the NBG internship to find out what they're doing now, and how they look back on their time with New Books in German.