I would like to thank the judges of the Heine Preis for allowing me to receive this honour, to be…
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This year a breath of fresh air circulated around the award of literature prizes in France. The good news: the…
Laurent Mauvignier is among France’s leading contemporary writers. Readers who take up one of his novels immediately notice that actually…
Exile is a grave. Historical epochs, things and peoples vanish in it. Yet, often they are suddenly back in the…
In his novel Compass, the well-travelled polyglot and writer Mathias Enard develops a counter-programme to the populist mainstream of being ‘anti-’open…
All those who may now feel caught in a dreadful predicament – on the one hand, wanting to embrace the…