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As the Literary Saloon notes, the British Translators' Association awarded its annual prizes last night at the South Bank. Unlike the...

Signandsight.com now has English excerpts from all six books shortlisted for the German Book Prize online. Except there are only five - the...

Almost inevitably, Lukas Bärfuss’ Hundert Tage has been called a Heart of Darkness for the 21st century. But while he obviously pays homag...

...for my absence last week. It got very hectic, from headlice to family nuptials to marathon interpreting sessions. But there should be som...

The FAZ Lesesaal has been busy. It seems there is a mutiny underway - the authors are jumping ship. Michael Lentz got the ball rolling by ...

The second and final day of our tour of Berlin's publishers with the LCB summer academy for translators of German literature took us fro...

Remember my hot tip on who I suspected was translating Wetlands ? Well, I was right. BILD broke the story on Tuesday but I didn't noti...