Asked to investigate how the UK receives the work of the Slovenian writer Drago Jančar, I find myself asking an…
ELit Literature House Europe Observatory
The success of East European literatures in the German-speaking world has a direct correlation with expectations and – yes, also…
The nineteenth consecutive World Book and Copyright Day, proclaimed by UNESCO to take place on April 23rd, is vivid in…
It’s a decline without precedence: the teen magazine “Bravo” – for decades this was like “Smash Hits” for German teenagers…
On Monday evening, Han Kang was announced as the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian. For…
Drago Jančar got discovered by the French readership with L’Élève de Joyce (2003, published by L’Esprit des Péninsules), a collection…