Tag: translation/translators

A Chorus of Coxes

October 3, 2017 / Simon Pare

In June this year six translators from across the world gathered in Germany to discuss their versions of a novel by Christoph Ransmayr. Simon Pare, Ransmayr's English translator, shares his experience of the 'Atriumsgespräch'.

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Wit & Whimsy: Translators recommend their favourite comic authors

March 9, 2017

We asked some of our favourite translators to recommend humorous books in German – some already translated into English, some ripe for translation.

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Translator Focus: Ruth Martin

March 7, 2017 / Ruth Martin

NBG interviews the translator Ruth Martin

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Publisher Focus: MacLehose Press

September 26, 2016 / Katharina Bielenberg, Hannah Weatherill

Katharina Bielenberg, Associate Publisher at MacLehose Press, talks to NBG.

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Translator Focus: Simon Pare

September 26, 2016

NBG interviews the translator Simon Pare

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Translators Acting Up

September 24, 2016

By Katy Derbyshire ‘Let’s keep on painting flowers on the walls, watering the carpets and sliding down the bannisters of the literary community’

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Twenty Years of German Literature in Translation: A Survey

September 24, 2016

Former NBG editor Sally-Ann Spencer reflects on the rising presence of German-language literature in English over the last two decades.

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The Grande Dame of Literary Translation: Anthea Bell at Eighty

September 13, 2016 / Ruth Martin, Anthea Bell

As New Books in German celebrates its twentieth birthday, one of the UK's most renowned and prolific translators and cherished long-time member of the NBG editorial committee celebrates her eightieth.

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Take a Seat: An Interview with Sharon Dodua Otoo

September 13, 2016

Having won in the same year the great Austrian writer and poet would have turned 90, NBG talks to British author Sharon Dodua Otoo about receiving this year's Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.

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