love german books

Biased and unprofessional reports on German books, translation issues and life in Berlin

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Gili Bar-Hillel and the 800lb Gorilla

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Five out of ten times when I tell people I translate literature, they ask me: "Oh, did you translate Harry Potter? I bet you're rea...
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Lady Bloggers in Berlin

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I shall be talking to ladies from the publishing industry in April, along with Rery Maldonaldo and Nikola Richter from Los Superdemokratico...
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Monday, 26 March 2012

Ich nannte ihn Krawatte

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The park bench is perhaps a little tired. Tired of serving as a vehicle to enable quirky relationships to form between complete stran...
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Inka Parei in New Zealand

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One of my favourite German writers, Inka Parei, is travelling around New Zealand in a campervan. You can read about her adventures and obser...
Thursday, 22 March 2012

Films!

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Have I ever mentioned my fantastic plan for avoiding reading the classics? The plan was to watch the movie versions instead and appear learn...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Hoppe!

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I was at a very entertaining event last night - the German writer Felicitas Hoppe reading from her autobiography Hoppe . Hmmm, writers' ...
Monday, 19 March 2012

Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation to Michael Hofmann

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The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced various awards , including "$20,000 to a practitioner, scholar, or patron who ha...
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