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Jury recommendations: spring 2025

February 28, 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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‘I don’t have an agenda when I write. I tell the stories of people who interest me.’ An interview with author Sara Gmuer

April 11, 2025

Author Sara Gmuer sat down with New Books in German to talk about language, music and the characters in her novel, Eighteenth Floor, one of NBG’s recent recommendations.

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Kaffeepause mit…Melody Makeda Ledwon

April 7, 2025

The translator, interpreter and founder of the Black Translators Network in Germany speaks to NBG about her work, the founding of the Network and support for translators.

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DE → EN – Enjoy in English

April 3, 2025

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 dramatic arts.

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‘All the everyday things…you leave it all behind’ – an interview with Gabriela Stöckli of Translation House Looren

March 31, 2025

As the much loved translator’s retreat gears up to celebrate its 20th anniversary, we spoke to Managing Director Gabriela Stöckli about the house and landscape, creating community, and fostering linguistic diversity.

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‘The human drama…takes centre stage.’ An interview with Robert Seethaler

March 31, 2025

The Café with No Name, the latest novel by International Booker Prize listed author, Robert Seethaler, has recently been published in English translation by Katy Derbyshire. In advance of his visit to the UK to speak about his book, he found time to catch up with New Books in German.

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The journey from Blutbuch to Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

March 27, 2025

Translator Jamie Lee Searle reflects on her experience translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch, which won the 2022 German Book Prize.

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