Einige Eindrücke vom Resonanzen Literaturfestival 2024 und eine Ankündigung zum Buch rund ums Festival (Literarische Diverse, 2024). Read more
Festival
Birmingham Literature Festival – 25 Years of Celebrating and Supporting Writing from the West Midlands
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: October for me is the time of the Birmingham Literature Festival. This year, it was celebrating its 25th anniversary with an even bigger range of authors, topics and locations – from the location at the Rep in the Birmingham city center, the […] Read more
Making Sense of the Book World in 2020 and 2021
Gesa Stedman takes a look at the main trends of the key pandemic years when shops were closed, readers turned to fiction again, festivals went online and bookfairs were cancelled. Read more
African Book Festival 2021 –
Music to my Ears
For the first time in a loooong time, I’ve attended a literature event: the African Book Festival in Berlin, run by InterKontinental and curated by Kalaf Epalanga. This year’s festival highlighted the craft of authors and artists from Angola, but the programme also included, among others, authors from Nigeria, South […] Read more
From Birmingham to Sokcho – a Conversation with Author Élisa Shua Dusapin and Translator Aneesa Abbas Higgins
On Thursday, 17 December 2020, the Birmingham Lit Fest Presents… Podcast will publish an episode about Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel Winter in Sokcho. I had the great honour to interview the author and her English translator Aneesa Abbas Higgins for this podcast and I’m thrilled to share it with you […] Read more
