I do love getting contributor copies... here's the latest issue of Sinn und Form, which contains three of my self-translations:

#writingcommunity #writinglife #sinnundform #litmags #germanlit #poetry #poetrycommunity #lyrik #mastopoet

Sibylle Berg's Grime, newly translated by Tim Mohr, "is a novel so caustic it should be printed with hydrochloric acid." Berg "sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that are rendering the 21st century intolerable."

#Germanlit #translation #satire

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/12/13/grime-sibylle-berg-review/

The rules of #gender in German-speaking Europe are bending, and Kim de l’Horizon is leading the way. They received the 2022 German Book Prize for Blutbuch, “a formally adventurous work centering on a #nonbinary character, also named ‘Kim,’ grappling with gender identity while exploring the traumatic histories of women in their Swiss family.”

#books #GermanLit

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/books/kim-de-l-horizon-german-book-prize.html

Gudrun Pausewang’s 1987 novel Die Wolke (The Cloud), about a fictional nuclear accident, was standard reading for young West Germans. “To this day, critics argue over whether she empowered children—or traumatised them for life.”

#GermanLit #KidLit #books #Atomkraft

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221101-the-cloud-the-nuclear-novel-that-shaped-germany

“the black ghosts of trees” - Adalbert Stifter, The Bachelors trans. David Breyer #stifter #AdalbertStifter #germanlit

"In the green countryside beyond was the silver glint of a river and further off the oh, so gentle, almost achingly enticing blue of the mountains."

-Adalbert Stifter, The Bachelors trans. David Bryer

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"In the green countryside beyond was the silver glint of a river and further off the oh, so gentle, almost achingly enticing blue of the mountains."

-Adalbert Stifter, The Bachelors

#Adalbert Stifter #Stifter #germanlit

reading Adalbert Stifter's The Bachelors

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