Yoko Tawada is one of the most inventive and thrilling voices in literature today. She writes experimental and imaginative novels, short stories, poems, plays and essays that touch
If she’d gone downstairs just five minutes later, she’d have missed the entrance to the underworld, which would have trundled on its way, offering its open hole to someone else
Like some kind of shibboleth, the name ‘Jenny Erpenbeck’ can, when spoken to the initiated, trigger sighs of pleasure and exchanges of knowing literary looks. And this is how I
Awad, Rashid and Osarabo. Three names, three individuals, three protagonists in German author Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel. Three men from Africa of the many thousands who flee th
The Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes celebrate individual talents and the importance of the art form. These winning books, spanning fiction and poetry, exemplify the import
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize celebrates 25 years with first German winner since Sebald! ‘The End of Days’ by Jenny Erpenbeck (published by Portobello) has won the
