Perhaps the following titles might be of interest, too:
1.
Zoë Jenny, The Pollen Room, translated by Michael Hofmann, Bloomsbury
Paperback 1999
Portraying a child's eye-view of divorce, this debut novel by a young
Swiss writer is the story of Jo, torn between the father who raised and
protected her and the ravishing mother who abandoned her for 12 years
but who - after the death of her second husband - may at last need her
help. The book was very successful in German-speaking countries.
2.
Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums, translated by Michael Hofmann,
Granta Books Paperback 1999
Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, this novel
tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the
impoverished provinces in search of better prospects in the city. The
book is based on the author's own biography.
3.
Ingrid Noll, The Pharmacist, HarperCollins Trade Paperback 1999
In this crime novel by one of the most popular contemporary German
'crime ladies', Hella Moormann is telling her life story to Rosemarie
Hirte, the unknown, unprepossessing woman in the next bed at Heidelberg
Hospital for Women. The story centres around Hella's affair with a young
dental surgeon and their involvement with drugs and murder. But
Rosemarie also has secrets.
The book was also turned into a film.
4.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Life Is a Caravanserai, translated by Luise von
Flotow, Middlesex University Press Paperback, August 2000
This highly acclaimed story of the childhood and adolescence of a
Turkish girl is based on the author's own experiences. Sevgi Özdamar is
a writer and actress who was born in Turkey in 1946 but has lived in
Germany since the early 70s.
Barbara Honrath
Head of Arts
Goethe-Institut
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
tel +44 20 7596 4043
fax +44 20 7594 0213
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http://www.goethe.de/london
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> Antwort an: brownp
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. August 2000 02:30
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> Betreff: Engl. translations of recent authors?
>
> I teach a course in English on "Women in German Literature and Film,"
> which
> includes such authors as Gertrud Kolmar, Ingeborg Bachmann, Barbara
> Frischmuth, Verena Stefan, Elfriede Jelinek, Chirsta Wolf and other
> East
> German authors (1997 anthology by Lukens & Rosenberg).
>
> I'm currently looking to add something more recent from the 1990's
> that might
> appeal to undergraduates and that's out in an English translation
> (paperback).
> Any suggestions?
>
> Peter D.G. Brown
> SUNY New Paltz
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