With this Novel, I Return: An Interview with Rafik Schami
Syrian-German novelist Rafik Schami discusses liberty, storytelling, language and exile.
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PEN Atlas Q&A: Saša Stanišić
The acclaimed novelist talks to PEN Atlas about history, collective memory and place – the big themes of his latest book, Before the Feast (Pushkin Press).
Letter to Britain
As the UK considers its place in the European Union ahead of a likely referendum in June, the German author sends a personal message.
PEN Atlas Q&A: Jenny Erpenbeck
In this special PEN Atlas Q&A, winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Jenny Erpenbeck shares thoughts on history, narrative and her relationship with her translator
You speak such good German
Alina Bronsky, Russian-born but writing in German, charts the challenges and opportunities faced by the multilingual author
The present of the past of things
Patricio Pron writes a moving piece for PEN Atlas, about an encounter in a small German city that made him reflect on collective guilt, individual responsibility and the nature of the past - both for a person and a country
The Mussel Feast
Birgit Vanderbeke introduces PEN Atlas readers to her book The Mussel Feast - a subtly political work that is steeped in metaphor - and her experience of penning her first novel at such a poignant moment in German history
