Gesa Stedman rounds up the latest news from the literary field, including prizes, bookselling during the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the climate crisis. Read more
Caution: Reading in Progress (Class II)!
Gesa Stedman suffered from acute reader’s rage, when she explored three female authors promoted by The Bookseller in recent months. Read more
Book News for May and June 2020
Gesa Stedman goes on a round-trip and gives you the latest on sales figures, endemic racism in the literary field, bookselling during a pandemic, and more. The next Book News will be published after the summer break. Read more
Croeso i Gymru – Experiencing Literature Wales
Isabella Kremer and Taylor Hebert, two of Gesa Stedman’s students at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, spent their cultural immersion experience at Literature Wales. For Literary Field Kaleidoscope they talk about their experience. Read more
Book News April 2020
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most recent news from the literary field in the UK and in Germany, from Corona-affected bookshops Read more
Book News – The Latest Developments from the Literary Field
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most important news from the literary field from in-house audio production to more or less Read more
From No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference to A Pinch of Nom, From Audiobooks to Brexit: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
Gesa Stedman’s annual round-up looks at last year’s topics and Read more
Racism and the Booker Prize: Bernadine Evaristo is not “the other author”!
While it was already doubtful whether Bernadine Evaristo as the first black woman ever to win The Booker Prize Read more
“You will always be our brothers and sisters” – Poetry and Indigenous Languages from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
“Strength lies in Celtic and European unity” – this could have been the motto of Tuesday’s event entitled Muttersprache which took place at the Centre for British Studies and was co-organised by The Literary Field Kaleidoscope, Read more
The Power of Fiction and Poetry: Multi-lingual Workshops and Readings at the Centre for British Studies
The audience was riveted in spite of the hot weather, when Alys Conran read at the Centre for British Studies in June this year. Read more
