The best recent translated fiction – review roundup The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva Meijer The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2025
From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool? Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state The Guardian - UK · May 10, 2023
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann review – a family split in a divided Germany This vivid autobiographical novel – now published in English for the first time – offers an intriguing insight into East Germany in the early 60s The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2023
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann review – rebel with a cause This intoxicating 1963 novel explores the tension between socialist ideals, self-fulfilment and repressive reality in East Germany The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2023