Category: Literature

On Banat Literature

An interesting essay on minority writers (specifically Romanian-German writers) by Richard Wagner, originally from Romania, now living in Berlin, and once married to Herta Mueller, in today’s  Neue Züricher Zeitung (German article complete, here)....

Literary Estates

Jamais deux sans trois. The old French saying proved accurate again: I had barely gotten over the weirdness of Paul Zukofsky’s announcement as to his intent to wring every possible & impossible penny out...

Raymond Federman (1928-2009)

The sad news just reached me that Ray Federman has passed. And here I was thinking that if anybody would crack that immortality thing, it would be Ray! The news came via Charles Bernstein’s...

2009 German Book Prize Shortlist

Via signandsight — who marvelously add links to English-language excerpts for each of the books! —here’s the equivalent of France’s Goncourt (though how equivalent it really is could only be settled by comparing the...