Publishing remarkable writing from Germany. A Voland & Quist imprint. Posts by @KatyDerbyshire.
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Feels good to be offering a discount for ten years of #WiTMonth. Our stats? 64% of our translated books were written by women. vq-books.eu/august-is-women-…
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Follow the hilarious mishaps in Isabel Bogdan's "The Peacock"—a satirical gem mixing German humor with a Scottish setting!
Full review at goethe.de/india/germanbooksh….
Bonus: The original German title "Der Pfau" is available for free in our digital library at goethe.de/india/Onleihe
A utopian response to the weird imbalance of what languages get translated for the German (and Dutch, etc.) book market:
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A great temporary attraction for fans of Berlin's literary legacy: a recreation of sorts of the cult hangout Romanisches Café.
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Here's @pdlayne's translator's note about all her work on the fascinating, inspiring, ground-breaking graphic novel RUDE GIRL: vq-books.eu/translators-note…
We asked RUDE GIRL writer Birgit Weyhe and translator @pdlayne what books are important to them in the context of the graphic novel. The result is a reading list on @bookshop_org_UK, chock-full of Black Germans, punk rock and great writing:
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A new post on our #lovegermanbooks blog – all about the multimedia afterlife of #franzkafka, as related by German writer Michael Kumpfmüller. Many thanks to Helen MacCormac of #literaturhauskassel:
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Isn't it great when readers pick up on a commonality they'd never expected? Thanks to @LizzySiddal for this review of Birgit Weyhe's Rude Girl, tr. Priscilla Layne.
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Take @timmysmells' advice: Pick up a copy of Birgit Weyhe's RUDE GIRL, tr. Priscilla Layne, place reggae record on decks, open book, dive in. #rudegirl ftw
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Rude Girl by Birgit Weyhe is out! Race, heritage, music, fitting in, life, art. Here’s one of my favourite illustrations. #birgitweyhe @VQ_Books #kafka
To celebrate #pubday for Birgit Weyhe's RUDE GIRL, tr. Priscilla Layne, here's a playlist from John Williams to Deutschpunk!
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We're pretty obsessed with the BBC's This Town drama, so we've picked some books for each of the main characters...
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An early review for RUDE GIRL: "Whichever way you look at it, both layers are equally important. It’s also quite fascinating how Birgit Weyhe brings them together, clashes them, uses one to counterpoint the other." eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingr…
Out 29 April!
A few thoughts on the nominees for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize – and rivalry between writers:
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