Tag Archives: Iris Brandt

International Bestsellers: Get Ready for the Messe

In some ways Frankfurt is a lot like Disneyland. Both are associated with lots of hype, lots of people and the belief that on going there all your dreams may very well come true. Perpetuating these hopes for the book crowd are “fair-y” tales like the story of Saša Stanišić, nominee for the 2006 German…Continue Reading

Voices from the Edge

PEN Draws Droves, Caruso in Siberia, Sie ist ein Berliner Who says Americans don’t love literature in translation? The jam-packed events surrounding the PEN World Voices Festival last month suggest that editors will be scrambling to find the next José Manuel Prieto or Adam Zagajewski faster than one can say cross-cultural-post-national-poly-lingual-extravaganza. Billed as “a confluence…Continue Reading