By Siobhan O’Leary On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Boersenblatt features an interview with author and 2007 German Book Prize winner Julia Franck about her experience of growing up in East Berlin and then moving to West Berlin with her family when she was 8 years old. After the move, Franck says that she …
German Buch News: dtv Adds Hardcover Children’s Titles; Stones Sent to Commemorate Fall of the Wall
By Siobhan O’Leary According to Buchreport, dtv, the only German publisher focused exclusively on publishing paperbacks, will be expanding its list in summer 2010 to include an eight-title hardcover line in its dtv junior program. In the past year, dtv published ten hardcovers in its non-fiction program—the first time it had deviated from its paperback-only strategy. The new program will …