Tag: German contemporary literature
The book of the hour: Carolin Amlinger on contemporary literature – culture
Why do publishers always announce their novels as a commentary on the present? About a development that boosts sales, but harms literature. If you enter the apartments of strangers for…
Days of German Literature: Bachmann Prize for Valeria Gordeev – Culture
The novels by the American Slavicist and writer Elif Batuman contain what is probably the most precise documentation of Harvard University’s creative writing program that is currently available in terms…
French Literature: Do the French Write Better Books?
Annie Ernaux, Michel Houellebecq, Édouard Louis – French writers are adored in Germany, but it’s very quiet the other way around. What can be the reason? source site