An Anti-Berlin Lifestyle Novel Sonnenkönige (“Sun Kings”) by Marianne Jungmaier is her second novel after Das Tortenprotokoll. In-between are the short stories Sommernomaden. While Das Tortenprotokoll is grounded in a sense of home, Sommernomaden offers round-the-world tours with a light-h
The European Literature Network is delighted to be collaborating with Creative Multilingualism – a large-scale research project led by the University of Oxford, which studies the interconnection between linguistic diversity and creativity. In our new series of blogs entitled Languages & Cr
Elizabeth Taylor (born in 1912 in Reading; died in 1975 in Penn) was overlooked as a writer for a long while, even in Great Britain. Too much a stranger to London and its literary circles, she appeared too modest and looked after her husband and children too meekly without ever – in Virginia Wool
How does Rosie The Riveter Goldsmith do it that she can be in so many places at almost the same time? All those literature festivals, events, award ceremonies… Unfortunately, while she magics herself away from Hay to Norway, she can not write our June newsletter, so he
In the acclaimed film Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky, the director uses a a metaphor of a mystical Zone to which one travels in order to face the unknown, namely to meet one’s own deepest desires which are often hidden from oneself. Even when a person goes there with the intent to save the l
Liv Strömquist’s The Fruit of Knowledge is a unique non-fiction book about female sexuality. The problem is not the men who are not interested in the female sex organ, claims Liv Strömquist slightly surprisingly at the start of The Fruit of Knowledge. Rather, it is those who might have devel
