The Festival Neue Literatur has started -- bringing some: "of the best emerging and established writers from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland to New York City for a long winter weekend".
A solid program which you might want to check out, if you're in the area.
Yesterday was the opening reception, where they also awarded the Friedrich Ulfers Prize -- given to: "a leading publisher, writer, critic, translator, or scholar who has championed the advancement of German-language literature in the United States" -- to Robert Weil.
A solid program which you might want to check out, if you're in the area.
Yesterday was the opening reception, where they also awarded the Friedrich Ulfers Prize -- given to: "a leading publisher, writer, critic, translator, or scholar who has championed the advancement of German-language literature in the United States" -- to Robert Weil.