Literature

You can learn to write better: the Leipzig German Creative Writing Program and the University of Hildesheim train writing talents to become authors.More ...

There are writers in Germany who can hardly live from their work. Among them are outstanding authors, including some who, were hailed as the future of German literature. One of these is Gerhard Köpf.More ...

Even though promoting contemporary German-language literature is considered a laborious business, there is actually a whole series of institutions that are committed to this with plenty of ideas and great enthusiasm.More ...

Jean M. Snook was selected by a five-member jury as the winner of this year’s Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for her translation of Gert Jonke’s The Distant Sound, (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010), originally published as Der ferne Klang.More ...

In Germany there is probably no other literary genre that has been regarded so often with so much scepticism as lyric poetry. Now however all the new horizons being opened up by the media seem to be putting this poor relation of the world of literature back on the map.More ...