At the opening press conference at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (which ended October 18), Heinrich Riethmüller, the chairman of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, told reporters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The books on the shortlist for the German Book Prize. Four female authors and two men have been shortlisted for this year's German ...

This archive photo shows a 2009 exhibition devoted to the 50th anniversary of the 'Blechtrommel' at the Günter-Grass-Haus in Lübeck. Photo: DPA These ten novels, ranging from the late 19th century to ...

The modern Frankfurt Book Fair, which was launched in 1949 as a small book show in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche—with the participation of 205 German publishing companies—is this year celebrating its 75th ...

In our German Book Club we discuss contemporary German novels. The groups are open to anyone who loves to read and discuss books in German. We especially welcome non-native speakers to take the ...

WASHINGTON — Robert Thomas, 83, breezed into the National Archives with a smile, a white hankie peeking out of his suit coat pocket and an old briefcase containing the two rare books he filched in ...

When nonbinary author Kim de l’Horizon was announced the winner of the German Book Prize on Monday, they got up and hugged their friends, walked onstage, took a breath and said, “Wow.” De l’Horizon, ...