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Tony Malone
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Championing the wonders of translated fiction, one review at a time. Slightly older and more haggard than the photos suggest. Bitter at most things, really.
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Rounding off this year's #GermanLitMonth reviews, all hail the undisputed Queen of GLM, Christa Wolf - see my review of 'Leibhaftig' ('In the Flesh') here :)
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‘Leibhaftig’ (‘In the Flesh’) by Christa Wolf (Review)
When it came to weighing up choices for German Literature Month’s GDR Week, there was one writer I couldn’t look past, particularly as she’s the undoubted queen of my GLM reading …
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November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Week 3 of #GermanLitMonth and I'm reading Volker Weidermann on Thomas Mann: peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...
German Lit Month 2025-Mann vom Meer-Thomas Mann, Man of the Sea, by Volker Weidermann.
Here I am again, reading around the great Thomas Mann, rather than tackling the work itself. But I couldn’t resist this book, recommended by danares.mag-blog, as I very much enjoyed Volker Weiderma…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic
I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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For #GermanLitMonth, a writer who deserves more attention, Gert Hofmann, and his novel, Our Conquest, exploring the end of the second world war through the eyes of a child:
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Our Conquest
Gert Hofmann’s novel Our Conquest remains some of the earliest of his work we have in English, originally published in 1984 and translated by Christopher Middleton in 1991. Its focus is one we see …
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November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm
two! one two  – one two  –  three! .        two one two three  –   four .       two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Another racy cover for #GermanLitMonth, but this time the book is more sordid than erotic - how a self-proclaimed pervert brought down the Berlin Wall in Thomas Brussig's 'Helden wie wir' ('Heroes Like Us') :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/h...
‘Helden wie wir’ (‘Heroes Like Us’) by Thomas Brussig (Review)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re already in the final week of German Literature Month, and after some surprisingly fun adventures with Thomas Mann, it’s time to move onto the final…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Winding Up the Week #448
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce both the Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge and A Year With Iris Murd…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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More Mann for #GermanLitMonth today, with the rest of the stories from 'Unordnung und frühes Leid' ('Disorder and Early Suffering') - see what I made of them at the usual place :)
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‘Unordnung und frühes Leid’ (‘Disorder and Early Suffering’) by Thomas Mann (Review)
Keen-eyed readers may have noticed that my first contribution to Thomas Mann Week for this year’s German Literature Month, a look at the delightful Herr und Hund (A Man and His Dog), actually…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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More than a shaggy-dog story? I kick off #GermanLitMonth's Thomas Mann Week with a look at 'Herr und Hund' ('A Mann and His Dog'), in which the writer shows a softer side of his character (for the most part...):
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‘Herr und Hund’ (‘A Man and His Dog’) by Thomas Mann (Review)
Welcome to Week 3 of this year’s German Literature Month, devoted to a very special man.  You see, while we’re a few months late, 2025 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of a cert…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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With the start of Thomas Mann week tomorrow for this year's #GermanLitMonth, I was reminded of a four-part discussion I had with @LizzySiddal in 2017 about his novel 'Buddenbrooks' - we had a lot to say!
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Buddenbrooks: A Literary Conversation Part One
I have always wanted to offer Buddenbrooks as a readalong during German Literature Month (GLM) but a number of regular GLM participants have already read it on their own. After visiting the Buddenb…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Need some cheering up for #GermanLitMonth? Here's Thomas Bernhard to brighten up your day :)

Wait a minute...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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"He cited Anton Hur as 'a superstar translator' — one whose name has become synonymous with great translation, and thus helps drive sales."

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Future of K-lit: Redefining cultural phenomenon on global stage - The Korea Times
Whether we like it or not, the next chapter of Korean literature may live onscreen. Korean literature, or K-lit, has emerged as a new global cultur...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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In week 2 of #germanlitmonth it's all about The City. I've read this beautiful novella set in Rome by FCDelius translated by Jamie Bulloch :
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German Lit Month 2025- Week 2- The City-Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by FC Delius, translated by Jamie Bulloch
What better book to suit this week’s German Lit Month theme than this short novella, set in Rome? It takes place over one hour in January 1943 and is an inner monologue told by a young woman walkin…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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#NovNov #GermanLitMonth @stujallen.bsky.social Readers need patience for a Bernhardian narrative, but fortunately mine lasted until (none the wiser about who dunnit, I got to the end.
Klausen (2002), by Andreas Maier, 2010 translation by Kenneth J Northcott anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/11/k...
Klausen (2002), by Andreas Maier, 2010 translation by Kenneth J Northcott
An act of violence seems to have occurred in Klausen — a small German town near the border with Italy — but nobody is exactly sure what happened.  It might have been a bomb on the autobahn or in a …
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November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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For #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @twistedspoon.bsky.social - more on the blog!
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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My second review for #GermanLitMonth is from another of my favourite German-language writers, Peter Stamm - In a Deep Blue Hour translated by Michael Hofmann:
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In a Deep Blue Hour
In a Deep Blue Hour, published originally in 2023 and now translated into English by Michael Hofmann, is the latest novel from Swiss writer Peter Stamm. It begins with the narrator, Andrea’s, attem…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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New review today: A strange little tale for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Paulus Hochgatterer findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/g...
#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Paulus Hochgatterer
Paulus Hochgatterer: The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero, transl. Jamie Bulloch, MacLehose Press, 2020. You might be familiar with Austrian author (and psychiatrist) Paulus Hochgatterer from his crim…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Fear and loathing in downtown Vienna for #GermanLitMonth today, with Elfriede Jelinek's 'Die Klavierlehrerin' ('The Piano Teacher'):
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November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/g...
#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads
In the spirit of efficiency, I am once more combining two of my favourite reading challenges, namely German Literature Month, as hosted by Caroline and Tony this year, and Novella November hosted b…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads
In the spirit of efficiency, I am once more combining two of my favourite reading challenges, namely German Literature Month, as hosted by Caroline and Tony this year, and Novella November hosted b…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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My review of 'Demian' by Hermann Hesse for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-demian
Light and dark: #GermanLitMonth #NovNov25
Photo: C A Lovegrove. Demian by Hermann Hesse. Demian: Die Geschichte einer Jugen von Emil Sinclair (1919) translated by W J Strachan (1958). Penguin Modern Classics, 2017. “The bird is …
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November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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My second review for #GermanLitMonth's Genre Week takes us to Germany (via Austria) for Ingeborg Bachmann's 'Frankfurter Vorlesungen' ('Frankfurt Lectures'), a series of talks the writer gave way back when :)
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November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Dust off your German, Swiss and Austrian books and join us for #GermanLitMonth. beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/01/w...
Welcome to German Literature Month XV November 2025
Welcome to German Literature Month XV Hopefully many of you have a nice selection of books or a reading list for #germanlitmonth. Remember  – anything that was originally written in German ca…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Currently on my 2nd read doing double duty for #GermanLitMonth and #NovellaNovember
Arno Camenisch's Goldene Jahre (Golden Years) has the gentle humour and quirky voice that I loved in @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul
November 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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My first book for #germanlitmonth. I've not followed the suggested schedule as this was calling me from the bookcase and I'm so pleased to have read it: peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/g...
German Literature Month XV- Inheritance ( Erbgut) by Marlen Hobrack
Many of us in mid-life go through the sad business of clearing out a deceased parent’s home. Few will encounter a challenge as overwhelming as that faced by Marlen Hobrack when her mother died: she…
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November 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM