Over the ten years since the European Literature Network was created, we have reviewed, discussed and promoted a substantial number…
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Germans used to be good at being serious, yet they struggled to be funny, at least in a fashion appreciated…
Germany’s authoritarian past haunts Birgit Vanderbeke’s explorations of patriarchal tyranny, The Mussel Feast and You Would Have Missed Me. These…
We have our best ideas between the ages of five and ten. Some people have only a few ideas after…
The twentieth century was one of turmoil and repeated upheaval for the German people. In just over eighty years there…
The Capital, in Jamie Bulloch’s superb translation, arrives for the English-speaking reader at a delicate time. Two years after it…
I have a long-standing affection for Swiss literature. Like many A-level students over the years, my first taste of literature…
Elefant is a new novel by the Swiss-German writer Martin Suter and it’s been a big bestseller in the German-speaking…
Schoch crept out of his sleeping bag and tried to breathe deeply to calm the pounding of his heart. What…
Winter. A very unusual sight alarms the inhabitants of Liebau, a small town near Freiburg in the Black Forest close…
Mon 13 Feb 2017, 6:45pm – 9:00pm, Free Word Centre, book here. We welcome acclaimed author Steven Uhly and his British translator…
It’s hard not to envy the staff at the Hachette publishing group who have their offices in the London headquarters.…
