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
Public reading
The Joy of Listening to Okechukwu Nzelu
Please join us for an online reading with the Manchester-based writer Okechukwu Nzelu! Monday, 29 November 2021 17h Berlin time, 4pm UK time on zoom (registration details below) His debut novel, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue Books), won a Betty Trask Award. It was also shortlisted for the […] Read more
Happy in Berlin? English and British Writers and the Berlin Myth
Musa Okwonga, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Kate McNaughton, Rory McLean – the list can be continued easily. All these writers grew up in Britain, or have close ties with the UK, but they live or have lived in Berlin 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
Brigid Meets Berlin – Irish Women Writers Festival
Sonya Permiakova gives an account of the recent Irish women writer’s festival in Berlin 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
Wales Book of the Year Winner Alys Conran Reading in Berlin!
Alys Conran, who won the Wales Book of the Year Award for her debut novel “Pigeon” is coming to Berlin to read from her novels. On Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 5pm she will read at the Centre for British Studies on Mohrenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin. Following her successful novel “Pigeon”, […] Read more
Brexit Wake at Literaturhaus Berlin 29 March 2019
Depressed by Brexit? In need of literary and musical sustenance? Come to Literaturhaus Berlin, Read more
