Four people, a big castle, a lot of guests – oh, and a fair bit of chemistry, too … Elective Affinities (“Die Wahlverwandtschaften”) introduces us to Eduard and Cha
Byung-chul Han is a Korean writer and philosopher who has spent most of his career in Germany and Switzerland, producing a number of works that have met with success outside academ
Franco Nasi’s Translator’s Blues is a down-to-earth piece of writing, mixing the Italian translator’s views on his trade with stories from home and further afield. We plunge
With all my literary travels over the course of the past month, crossing the globe in the search for the pick of the Man Booker International Prize crop, I could be forgiven for wa
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is dead – long live the Man Booker International Prize! Well, that’s what the organisers of the new prize would have us think, anyway. Tho
For the fifth year in a row, bloggers Lizzy (Lizzy’s Literary Life) and Caroline (Beauty is a Sleeping Cat) are using November to promote German-language literature with their Ge
