Tag: translation/translators

Monsters Like Us

May 30, 2022 / Helen Nurse

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.

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Interview with translator Shaun Whiteside

May 23, 2022 / Helen Nurse

New Books in German met for a chat with CEATL President Shaun Whiteside at the London Book Fair

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Working with New Books in German – interview with intern Helen Nurse

May 10, 2022 / Helen Nurse

Translator and teacher Helen talks to NBG about her time working with us

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How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook

May 10, 2022 / Sarah Hemens

‘But as many Jewish authors now discovered, even authorship could be stolen.’

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Not easy but glorious: translating a book for the first time

February 7, 2022 / Jo Heinrich

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.

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Collaborative work: Translating and copyediting the Bureau of Past Management

January 27, 2022 / Angela Hirons

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.

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25 years of New Books in German – Celebrating Our Interns

December 16, 2021 / Sarah Buckmaster

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.

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