The German Book Prize short list is out today! Three women, three Swiss writers and four with other books published in English in the last three years have made the cut. In my very subjective order of preference, they are:…
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German Book Prize Shortlisters in Translation
Tagged with: Eluned Gramich, Eugene Hayworth, Frank Witzel, German, German Book Prize, Inger-Maria Mahlke, Jenny Erpenbeck, Martin Chalmers, Monique Schwitter, Rolf Lappert, Susan Bernofsky, Swiss, Translation, Ulrich Peltzer
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Posted in books, literature
The world through your letterbox: PEN World Bookshelf
English PEN has just announced more support for independent publishers to publish works in translation, which is great news since the independents are the ones producing the really interesting stuff. Their world bookshelf of contemporary writers in supported by the PEN…
Tagged with: Anna Politkovskaya, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Arch Tait, Finnish, German, Jenny Erpenbeck, Johanna Sinisalo, Literature, Lola Rogers, PEN Translates, Polish, Rosa Liksom, Russian, Sarah Bernofsky, Translation, Witold Szabłowski, World Bookshelf
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Posted in literature, translation
The End of Days: The Translator
Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days, translated by Susan Bernofsky, has variously been described as brutal, haunting, and dreamlike, unvarnished and the work of a miniaturist. It’s all that and more. And it’s a very fitting first German winner of…
Tagged with: books, German, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Jenny Erpenbeck, Literature, Susan Bernofsky, The End of Days, Translation
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