Leipzig is Lit

2018-05-14

First Harvest: The BTBA Long List

The past half-year I have had the honor of being a part of the jury choosing the Best Translated Book Award (for fiction), 2018. If you’ve never heard of it before, you might not necessarily view the category as self-explanatory, but actually it’s simple: books that were published in the US in the yea…

2018-03-11

Everyone Loves the (Leipzig Book) Fair

One of the cultural highlights of the year in Leipzig is the book fair. Every March, Germany’s second-largest book fair takes over the city for four days. In contrast to the big publishing, deal-oriented trade fairs in Frankfurt and London (in October and April, respectively), since German r…