A man asks a woman to pass the salt, and she gets up, walks past him out onto the balcony and… jumps. Leaving behind her teenage daughter, two young sons and their father, and her best friend. Was it one…
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Still raging: Die Wut, die bleibt
Tagged with: Austria, books, Die Wut die bleibt, Feminism, German, ITI German Network, Jozef van der Voort, Mareike Fallwickl, New Books in German, Rohwolt, The Rage that Remains, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
three per cent: best translated book from German 2014
Just three percent of books published in the US are in translation, and less than one percent are literary fiction and poetry. The University of Rochester is trying to change that, with its three per cent website and Best Translated…
Tagged with: Austria, books, Christa Wolf, Damion Searls, drama, Elfriede Jelinek, English, feminist, German, Language, Literature, Nobel Prize, three per cent, Translation, translator, writing
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, international, literature, translation
Posted in Best Translated Book Award, books, gender, international, literature, translation
found in translation 