Tag Archives: Birgit Vanderbeke

Reading German writers for Women in Translation Month 2020.

For what will probably be my last post for Women in translation Month 2020 I wanted to go back to my first language love of German. I decided to search my TBR pile for inspiration and came upon Herztier- The … Continue reading

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The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke (translated by Jamie Bulloch)

This book, Das Muschelessen in German, is one of the shortlisted books for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It was first published in 1990 and was awarded the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis in 1990, one of Germany’s top literary prizes. It is a … Continue reading

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