the ones who come after you will laugh at you the way you laugh at us now By Nóra Ružičková Translated by Ivana Hostová From What Now Is Now Is Now by Nóra Ružičková, translated by Ivana Hostová, published by Seagull Books, 2025 Nóra Ružičková is a pioneering experimental poe
Winner of the 2025 Austrian Book Prize, Dimitré Dinev’s Zeit der Mutigen (‘The Time of Heroes’, Kein & Aber, 2025) is one of the most striking novels in the German-language landscape this year. Vast in scope and monumental in scale, this 1,152-page epic offers a tender, tragicomic portrai
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has launched the EBRD Literature Prize 2026. The prize is awarded to a work of fiction translated into English from a language of an economy where the Bank currently invests and published for the first time in the past y
What is Authentic? is the theme for Thursday’s launch of the 17th European Literature Days with Martina Hefter and Eva Weber-Guskar +++ Prize-giving ceremony of the Austrian Book Trade Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and Action to Eva Menasse +++ More readings and discussions including wit
The Polka usually focuses on writers and books not yet translated into English but this time I would like to direct your attention towards some titles already, or soon to be, available inEnglish, should you be on the lookout for something new for yourself or as a Christmas gift for others. You are s
Repercussion is quite an intriguing term. Most are likely to focus on the popular contemporary definition: an unintended consequence of an action. Those unintended consequences can occur directly after an action, or, as is often the case, it seems, the consequences arrive later. Technically, a reper
