Reading Iris Wolff’s writing is like immersing oneself in the pages of a beautifully composed picture book. Clearing shows us the forests, mountains and plains of Romania where W
Nino Haratischwili’s The Lack of Light is one of those novels that does not simply depict a world but questions how we look at it. Three women, long since scattered, meet in Brus
This is the story of a young Iranian couple, Behzad and Nahid, who flee Iran after the 1979 Revolution and settle and have a family in West Germany. Their story is told in four sec
Thursday 8 February was a dismal day in south-west London, with leaden skies and relentless rain, but that did not prevent a healthy turnout of audience members to see the German a
Michael Köhlmeier is a household name in Austria, known for both his writing and his music, and he deserves more attention in the English-speaking world. I’ve translated two of
It’s rare for anything to be accurately described as Kafkaesque, but Tanja Maljartschuk’s short story collection neunprozentiger haushaltsessig (‘nine-percent household vineg
In an interview with New Books in German, Anthea Bell once told me that ‘translation is not – and in my view should not be – a high-profile profession’. She might, then, ha
Nino Haratischvili is set to make waves in the UK literary scene with the publication of her stunning epic novel The Eighth Life in English translation. And epic it is, stretching
Whenever I mentioned that I was reading The Eighth Life, the inevitable response was ‘that’s some undertaking’. It was, and I was worried about what I’d committed to; but n
Thursday, 28 November 2019, 6:30, pm Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, SW7 2PH London To celebrate the launch of Nino Haratischvili’s The Eighth Life
