Vienna-born actor and writer Robert Seethaler, whose novels The Tobacconist and A Whole Life have gained critical acclaim in the UK, will be the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre’s Writer-in-Residence in 2017. The lives and deaths of Seethaler’s unassuming heroes, intertwined with the history of Austria
Join novelist Meike Ziervogel in conversation with broadcaster Rosie Goldsmith and Professor of German Studies Stefanie Bird. Inspired by the author’s family history, The Photographer celebrates how humanity can thrive against all the odds. Set at the end of the Second World War, when 11 milli
Translate at City is the fourth literary translation summer school to be held at City, University of London. Organised in conjunction with the Translators Association of the Society of Authors, it offers the opportunity to translate texts across the literary genres into English, working with leading
‘WRITERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!’ Another May Day, another May Day Manifesto? Our Literary Manifesto this May 2017 comes from our ‘Writers of the World Unite!’ festival of literature and social change – London’s newest festival. Over four days, writers, poets and activists from round t
4 May 2017 at 7 p.m. London Review Bookshop Tickets £10.00, book here Laurent Binet, who won the Prix Goncourt du premier roman for his first novel HHhH, will be at the shop to read from and discuss his second, The 7th Function of Language (Harvill Secker). The new book is a global conspiracy thr
