Trafika Europe is selecting a winner and two runners-up in two different categories for a total of two winners and four runners-up. Submissions must be either unpublished translations or original works in English. Trafika Europe’s Prize for Prose and Trafika Europe’s Andrew Singer Prize for Vers
Not all the children know cats are bornin walnuts, do you understand? In walnuts.Just break their shell at midnight, if thereis a full moon, to see the small seed of awhite cat that prepares the idea of birth.If instead the moon is dark the tiny beast willbe black. Spotted, freckled, two-colored ift
Martina Hefter’s novel, Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir? (‘Hey, Good Morning, How Are You?’), has just won Germany’s most prestigious literary prize, the German Book Prize. It is absolutely a novel of its time that impeccably captures the Zeitgeist of the first quarter of the twenty-first
Rosie Goldsmith on the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.(From Rosie’s speech given to guests of the German Embassy in London) Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell?We all experience milestones, but some, like the Berlin Wall, were both landmark global events and life-changing per
Ka Klakla is a rather enigmatic figure on the Polish literature landscape. They (their chosen pronoun) publish under a name that sounds like a pseudonym, but isn’t one. They cover quite a range of genres in their writing, from poetry to prose, both literary prose and, as they describe it , “an e
Wednesday, November 20 Festival Opening + Talk A talk with author Pol Guasch and FLQEL director Jorge Gárriz on the translation of the book Napalm en el corazón – Napalm in the heart – published by Faber and Faber. Location: Spanish Embassy – 39 Chesham Place London SW1X 8SB Time: 6:
