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European Literature Days 2016: Review of Gabriela Babnik
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Multiple stories are interwoven in Gabriela Babnik’s Dry Season...
CROWD Literature’s Omnibus Project
Posted by Steven J. Fowler | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
CROWD Literature’s Omnibus project was a literary tour like few others, running from May to August in 2016, from the far north of Finland to the beaches of the Mediterranean in Cyprus...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Robert Menasse
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink
In 2012, Robert Menasse’s essay Der Europäische Landbote. Die Wut der Bürger und der Friede Europas was published (trans. Craig Decker as...
Copyright in Slovenia
Posted by Miha Mazzini | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
The biggest US companies ten years ago were ExxonMobil, General Electric, Microsoft, Citigroup and Bank of America. Today they are Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Zsófia Bán
Posted by Eszter Ureczky | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Zsófia Bán is both a trespasser of cultural-geographical boundaries and a builder of bridges―between continents, races, genders and languages.
2016 German Book Prize: The Countdown Has Begun
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Despite all the hostilities, the German Book Prize – nominating the “best novel” since 2005 – is long established as one of the most prestigious awards...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Birgit Weyhe
Posted by Christian Grasser | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Foreign ‘guest workers’ also lived in the GDR. They came from socialist sister countries in the Third World...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Samantha Schweblin
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
“Then Sara got up, her ponytail shining on one side of her neck and then the other. She skipped to the cage, like a little girl. Her back to us, rising up on tiptoes, she opened the cage and took out ...
On Daniel Kehlmann’s Reception in the German-speaking Context/ Über die Daniel-Kehlmann-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Like Chewing Gum on the Sole of a Shoe.
Copyright in Serbia
Posted by Saša Ilić | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
It could be said that the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia – and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia before it – made the most...
