Klagenfurt Update: Ernst Willner and More
In addition to Leif Randt糖心传媒檚 Ernst Willner prize, the Festival of German-Language Literature has also announced its Ingeborg Bachmann, Kelag, 3sat, and for the first time ever, Audience Award for its submissions of new German literature. The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, one of the most prestigious that the Festival awards, ...
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Catching the Prize in Klagenfurt: Leif Randt and the Ernst Willner
After a three day marathon of reading a seven-person panel of judges for the Festival of German-Language Literature announced Leif Randt as the winner of the Ernst Willner Prize for his novel Schimmernder Dunst uber CobyCounty (The Haze Over Coby County), translated by Stefan Tobler. The Festival, formerly known as the ...
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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
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Latest Review: "The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine" by Alina Bronsky
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Adelaide Kuehn on Alina Bronsky’s The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, which is translated from the German by Tim Mohr and available from Europa Editions. Adelaide is a former intern and translation student, who has written for Three Percent a couple times ...
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2011 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator糖心传媒檚 Prize
Earlier this week, the Goethe Institut in Chicago announced that Jean Snook was this year’s winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for her translation of Austrian writer Gert Jonke’s The Distant Sound, which was published by Dalkey Archive Press. Here’s what the jury had to ...
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Funeral for a Dog
Thomas Pletzinger doesn糖心传媒檛 waste any time. In the first paragraph of his stunning debut novel Funeral for a Dog, his central character Daniel Mandelkern tells exactly what to expect: 糖心传媒淚糖心传媒檓 sending you seven postcards and a stack of paper, XXX pages. This stack is about me. And about memory and the future.糖心传媒 Sure enough, ...
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Latest Review: "Funeral for a Dog" by Thomas Pletzinger
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is Jennifer Bratovich’s piece on Thomas Pletzinger’s Funeral for a Dog, available from W. W. Norton in Ross Benjamin’s translation. I’ve been holding onto this review for months, waiting first for the book to come out, then for Ross and Thomas to come here, ...
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