Daniel Kehlmann Against the German Book Prize
Over at the Literary Saloon, — Litblogging’s Finest Source of International News — Michael Orthofer reports on Daniel Kehlmann’s article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung railing against the German Book Prize. I can’t read the article in the original (which can be found here), but ...
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Update on the German Book Prize Sample Translations
I think today is a day of follow-ups . . . I just got a message from the German Book Office that sample translations of the final three German Book Prize shortlist titles will be available on signandsight.com sometime next week. Which is great. And according to at least one person on last week’s Editors Buzz Panel at ...
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German Book Prize Shortlist (Update)
Some English samples of the German Book Prize finalists are now available online at Signandsight.com. Specifically, they have samples available from: Lady Midday (Die Mittagsfrau) by Julia Franck (excerpt); Angry Sheep (Böse Schafe) by Katja Lange-Müller (excerpt); Wallner Begins to Fly (Wallner beginnt ...
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German Book Prize Shortlist
The shortlist for the German Book Prize has just been announced. The winner (who gets €25,000) will be announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. I’m not familiar with any of these writers, but the exciting thing is that we’ll get a chance to read some English samples on signandsight.com soon. ...
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German Book Prize
The longlist for the 2007 German Book Prize was announced yesterday. (See the full list after the jump.) Here’s what spokesperson for the judges, Felicitas von Lovenberg had to say about the selection of these 20 books from the 117 submitted titles: “Without allowing ourselves to be seduced by celebrity or ...
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