• Jenny Erpenbeck

  • May 21 2024
  • Length: 53 mins
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Jenny Erpenbeck

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  • Jenny Erpenbeck is one of Germany’s most celebrated authors. She’s written four novels that have been translated into English, a memoir, several short stories, plays, and a few librettos, including the one she finished just before we spoke.


    Jenny writes about growing up in East Berlin and how her experience of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) shaped her worldview. Her novel, The End of Days won the Hans Fallada Prize and the International Foreign Fiction Prize while Go, Went, Gone, which prompted the critic James Wood to predict that she would one day win the Nobel Prize, won the Thomas Mann Prize and was longlisted for the Man Booker International. In May 2024, after this conversation was recorded, Jenny and her translator, Michael Hofmann, were the winners of the International Booker Prize for her latest novel, Kairos, about a love affair that crumbles while the East itself falls apart.


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