Gesa Stedman’s annual round-up looks at last year’s topics and Read more
Happy Holidays
Dear readers, Thanks for being there, for reading our texts and for letting us know what you think. It’s always nice to hear from you – it brings us a lot of joy and keep us on our toes! We’re going to be offline for a while, but we’ll be […] 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
Students’ Corner: Review of “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro
Today, Chiara Harrison Lambe, a student at the Centre for British Studies in Berlin, shares her review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go (Faber, 2005) and claims that it hasn’t lost any of its emotional force over the years. Never Let Me Go opens with its narrator, Kathy […] 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
An Archive Full of Voices: Wasafiri celebrates 35 years and 100 issues!
I had the great pleasure to attend the celebrations of Wasafiri Magazine’s 35th anniversairy and its 100th issue on Saturday, 9 November at the British Library in London. Founding editor Susheila Nasta together with editor and new publishing director Malachi McIntosh took guided us through their captivating programme entitled “An […] Read more
Bernardine Evaristo wins the 2019 Booker Prize
Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize! Yesterday, on the evening of 14th October 2019, the Booker Prize judges announced that they awarded the prize to both Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood. My first reaction was an outburst of joy (and a little dance in front of my phone) – […] Read more
Caution. Reading in Progress! Class
Gesa Stedman takes a look at a recent trend in publishing, Read more
Summer Time
Dear readers, We’re going to take a break over the summer and hope you’ll be back for our next post in the fall. You can sign up on the bottom of the page to receive an email whenever a new post goes online. In case you’re still looking for more […] Read more
