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Paula - Couverture souple

Hoffmann, Sandra

 
9783863912581: Paula

Synopsis

Sandra Hoffmann's Paula is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer's relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann asks: What kind of person, what kind of writer, does this environment produce?

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À propos de l'auteur

Sandra Hoffmann was born in 1967 and lives in Munich, where she teaches creative writing and writes for the radio. For her 2012 novel Was ihm fehlen wird, wenn er tot ist ('What he will miss when he's dead'), she received the Thaddäus Troll Prize, followed by the Hans Fallada Prize for Paula. Sandra Hoffmann was writer-in-residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School in 2018. Katy Derbyshire was born in London and has lived in Berlin for over twenty years. She is an award-winning translator of contemporary German writers, including Olga Grjasnowa, Angela Steidele and Clemens Meyer. Having taught literary translation in New York, New Delhi and Norwich, she now co-hosts a monthly translation lab and the bi-monthly Dead Ladies Show in Berlin. Katy is the publisher of the V&Q Books imprint.

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