Beiträge
ELit Book Tip: Juliana Kálnay’s strong debut “A House which is Deep in the Bones”
Veröffentlicht von Rainer Moritz | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Novels can naturally be written about people who live on remote farms in the Markgraviate of Brandenburg or who spend their days in stately villas in even more elegant suburbs along the...
ELit Book Tip: Karim Miské’s Graphiv Novel “N’appartenir”
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink
It could be his films, books or articles – for Karim Miské, everything revolves around one main question: belonging. From a young age, the son...
ELit Book Tip: Guy Delisle‘s Bestseller Gracphiv Novel “Hostage”
Veröffentlicht von Christian Gasser | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
The French-Canadian comic book author Guy Delisle landed a bestseller with his illustrations from international hot spots like “Pyongyang”, “Birma” or “Jerusalem”. In his latest book, “Hostage” he...
The Unhappy Children of Central Europe
Veröffentlicht von Mark Baczoni | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
It seems to me that there’s a theme in recent Hungarian literature, the literature of writers who grew up mainly in the seventies, and that is the theme of the unhappy child.
ELit Book Tip: Fatma Aydemir’s debut novel “Ellbogen”
Veröffentlicht von Rainer Moritz | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Is it possible, is it allowed? Can a convincing novel emerge when an author has barely gained perspective on current events? When she makes the characters think about Angela Merkel’s refugee policy ...
France is this year’s Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Buchmesse
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
France is this year’s Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Buchmesse. However, the recognition is not only for France, but also the French language including Francophone writers and publishers...
Post-Yugoslav Literature and Fragile Communities
Veröffentlicht von Saša Ilić | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
Yugoslavia has disappeared, but its spirit continues to live in works of fiction being written in its former territories, spanning “from the River Vardar to the Triglav mountain”...
Note to the Newer Slovenian Film Adaptations
Veröffentlicht von Gorazd Trušnovec | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
A brief overview of statistics shows that over 40% of all films produced between the inception of Slovenian cinematography after World War II and 1991 were literary adaptations. After Slovenia’s ...
ELit Book Tip: Olivier Bourdeaut’s surprise bestseller “Waiting for Bojangles”
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
France is in crisis – a social, economic and political crisis. The terror attacks have particularly deprived the French of some of their renowned joie de vivre...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 3
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
