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ELit Book Tip: Aude Picault: “Ideal Standard”
Posted by Christian Gasser | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
Relationships, sex, women’s self-determination and disappointments – the French comic book author Aude Picault covers these topics in her graphic novel “Ideal Standard”.
Famous and unknown
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
Leïla Slimani, Nathacha Appanah, Atiq Rahimi … they have all come from the Francophone world and are leading writers in France. In their native countries, however, they are not yet as well known, ...
Elit Booktip : Marion Messina, Faux Départ
Posted by Léa Cassagnau | Permalink | filed under: 2017, Tip
however, education means studying at a university, writing CVs and motivation letters, jobbing under fixed-term contracts and, for those who are lucky enough, working under a permanent contract. ...
ELit Book Tip: Ulli Lust: “How I Tried to Be a Good Person”
Posted by Christian Gasser | Permalink | filed under: 2017, Tip
Ulli Lust, in her mid-twenties, an aspiring artist in Vienna, is in love with two men: Georg, the 20-year-old actor, with whom things have fizzled out in bed; and Kimata, the Nigerian refugee, with ...
ELit Book Tip: Zsófia Bán, Night School
Posted by Mark Baczoni | Permalink
Zsófia Bán’s first prose work, Night School, is being translated by Jim Tucker for upcoming publication in the US. It’s rather an unusual work, defined by its dark humour and subversive blurring of ...
Camenisch and Grigorcea: Poetic Masterworks with Tantalizing Ruses
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2017, Tip
Arno Camenisch are two leading voices for young Swiss literature. They both enjoy a good reception with the audience, and this is also because of their communicative appeal. On the other hand, at a ...
Twelve Winning Authors 2017: European Union Prize for Literature
Posted by West Camel | Permalink | filed under: 2017, Tip
As I work my way through an anthology – any anthology really – I almost always find myself struck less by the individual stories I’m reading and more by the overall picture that is painted; the set ...
Literature House Europe: Literature Trends 2017
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017, Tip
