New German-language literature comes to New York and New Haven

From February 11 to 13, 2011, the second “Festival Neue Literatur” brings six of the “best up-and-coming German-language authors” to New York, where they will join U.S. authors Francine Prose and Rivka Galchan in a series of conversations and readings.
This year’s German-language participants are: Dorothee Elmiger(Switzerland), Andrea Grill (Austria), Julia Schoch (Germany), Antje Rávic Strubel (Germany), [...]

Herta Müller Receives the Nobel Prize of Literature

by Nina Wachenfeld
When the native Romanian received the award in Oslo in October 2009, becoming the twelfth female Nobel laureate in Literature, tribute was paid not only to a superb author, but also to a passionate human rights activist who, in her works, describes the terrors of the Ceauscescu regime. Best known since the early [...]