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No surprises here then, at least not for German readers. The shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is out , accompanied by a ...

Sometimes, meeting the author isn't such a pleasant experience. Yesterday's escapade sent me reeling out into the night, swearing al...

As Lawrence Venuti points out in an interview on Words without Borders , English-language publishing has embraced foreign crime writing. So...

Imagine you're a writer, and you just happen to be bilingual. You've written a book and the rights have been sold to the country who...

Just like most Brits seem to think the Germans dream about Adolf every night, the Germans have a good few clichés and prejudices about the B...

Just ignore any "factual" information you may find here. Apparently, Biller's book was on sale for a while, and about 3000 co...

Once again, the good old Guardian books blog provides me with fodder: an article by a writer about reading the Russian translation of his ...