Gesa Stedman looks at the most important trends of 2017, sums up key events of the year, and is somewhat sceptical about diversity increasing in the literary field in 2018. Diversity? That was the year that was – and what an odd year for the literary field in the […] Read more
Same chair, same location, same organisers. Still – hot! Jessica Fischer enjoys the readings and discussions with authors from the UK at the British Council Literature Seminar and feels fortified by the liberating energy that this event generated in all its diversity. The British Council invited writers and readers, professionals […] Read more
The Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the German-speaking literary field. It is awarded during the festival “Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur” in Klagenfurt, Austria. The prize money – 25,000€ – is as high as the endowment of the German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) and the Peace […] Read more
We congratulate Jackie Kay, who was just named Scotland’s new Makar, i.e. national poet. And apparently we’re not the only ones to think this was a great choice: For more information, see e.g. the Guardian’s piece about the appointment: link Read more
