German author Helga M. Novak has passed away; see, for example, (German) notices in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
She has one of the more interesting backgrounds of contemporary German authors -- a longtime GDR connection (she attended the leading East German MFA-equivalent program (the Johannes R. Becher-Institut)), a participant in the (in)famous 1966 Princeton Gruppe 47 meeting, Icelandic citizenship (since the 1960s), Polish residency.
Not much has been translated into English (but see, for example, this college thesis, consisting of several translated stories) -- and see also her most recent collection, which just came out a few months ago; see the Schöffling foreign rights page.
She has one of the more interesting backgrounds of contemporary German authors -- a longtime GDR connection (she attended the leading East German MFA-equivalent program (the Johannes R. Becher-Institut)), a participant in the (in)famous 1966 Princeton Gruppe 47 meeting, Icelandic citizenship (since the 1960s), Polish residency.
Not much has been translated into English (but see, for example, this college thesis, consisting of several translated stories) -- and see also her most recent collection, which just came out a few months ago; see the Schöffling foreign rights page.