I started learning German at school at the age of thirteen, and chose to study it at A-level because it seemed like most other people were taking French, and I wanted to do somethi
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 Priz
This month I attended two of the most entertaining German Embassy London events I have ever been to, marking 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Both events were held at th
After a baptism of fire at my first Frankfurt Book Fair – Europe’s biggest trade fair for books – a few weeks previously, Vienna’s book fair-cum-literary festival, ‘Buch
Sheridan Marshall: Christine, can you start by telling us about how all the diverse elements of your career – as an author, literary agent, and translator – fit together? Chris
Last week I attended the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time. After years of hearing about other people’s experiences of the world’s biggest gathering of publishing professi
