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Always one to upstage an event, Germany's most revered literary critic, Marcel Reich- Ranicki , has gone and joined the ranks of award- ...

At last, the English-language overview of this season's German-language books is online at New Books in German . Lots and lots to explo...

The Frankfurt Book Fair opens its doors this coming Tuesday. I'm not going. Why not? Why won't I be rubbing shoulders with the publi...

Remember Translation Idol , the poetry translation talent contest I co-organised in May? You can see rather gruesome photos and all the entr...

What with celebrating German Reunification Day on Friday by working extra-long hours and all the extra stress in the run-up to the book fair...

I'll try really hard to write this little piece without mentioning the word "bandwagon", OK? The Swiss booksellers' and pu...

Being kind of unilateral in my literary interests, I don't tend to take full advantage of the "international" side of the Berl...