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European Literature Days 2016: Review of Zsófia Bán
Posted by Eszter Ureczky | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Zsófia Bán is both a trespasser of cultural-geographical boundaries and a builder of bridges―between continents, races, genders and languages.
2016 German Book Prize: The Countdown Has Begun
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Despite all the hostilities, the German Book Prize – nominating the “best novel” since 2005 – is long established as one of the most prestigious awards...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Birgit Weyhe
Posted by Christian Grasser | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Foreign ‘guest workers’ also lived in the GDR. They came from socialist sister countries in the Third World...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Samantha Schweblin
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
“Then Sara got up, her ponytail shining on one side of her neck and then the other. She skipped to the cage, like a little girl. Her back to us, rising up on tiptoes, she opened the cage and took out ...
On Daniel Kehlmann’s Reception in the German-speaking Context/ Über die Daniel-Kehlmann-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Like Chewing Gum on the Sole of a Shoe.
Copyright in Serbia
Posted by Saša Ilić | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
It could be said that the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia – and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia before it – made the most...
European Literature Days 2016: Review on Anton Kannemeyer
Posted by Christian Gasser | Permalink
Anton Kannemeyer alias Joe Dog, a white South African, is just as controversial as he is popular in his home country. In comics, caricatures...
A literature prize and reader’s tip for the holiday season
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
The Prix du livre Inter or Inter Book Prize is the last of the season’s leading literary prizes in France...
Henning Mankell’s “The Antelopes”
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
For most of us, Henning Mankell is the father of the modern Swedish crime novel...
On Daniel Kehlmann’s Reception in the German-speaking Context / Über die Daniel-Kehlmann-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Like Chewing Gum on the Sole of a Shoe...
