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Iranian-Canadian author Ava Farmehri’s debut novel paints a bleak picture of growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. The book is both a prison novel and a reflection on freedom. Gerrit Wustmann read it for Qantara.de
'My mother didn’t want us to live wars,' said Canada's Catherine Mavrikakis in a conversation at Frankfurter Buchmesse.
International Literature Prize shortlist: 6 books to check out The major literary award honors a novel's German translation — and offers a preview of acclaimed works that are also set to be published in English later this year. Jonas Eika, Jenny Offill, Nastassja Martin, Ava Farmehri, Fatima Daas and Fang Fang are the nominated authors Awarded annually since 2009 by the Berlin arts center Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the foundation Elementarteilchen, the International Literature Prize recognizes a work of international prose that has been translated into German. The winning author will...
Flashback to a childhood in Tehran Iranian-Canadian author Ava Farmehri’s debut novel paints a bleak picture of growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. The book is both a prison novel and a reflection on freedom. Gerrit Wustmann read it for Qantara.de "Through the sad wood our corpses will hang". It could be the title of an American horror novel. Or something by Shakespeare. But it’s actually a quote from Dante’s Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. It’s also the title of Ava Farmehri’s debut novel, originally published in Canada in 2017, and now available in Ge...
Rights Outlook: Books From Québec Flourishing in German Recently translated literature from Québec may find new life as part of Guest of Honor Canada’s programming at Frankfurter Buchmesse in October. Plus, rights recommendations from bookseller Olivier Boisvert. (Sponsored) At Munich’s Arena cinema, February 18. Image – iStockphoto: MangoFriendly Editor’s note: Germany’s health minister Jens Spahn tells Deutsche-Welle that the UK variant B.1.1.7 accounts for 22 percent of new infections in the country at this point. The 4:23 a.m. ET (0923 GMT) update of the Johns Hopkins Coronavi...