On April 19, 2024, the Else Lasker Student Prizes were awarded in Wuppertal, including a sponsorship prize for the first time in 20 years. This year's poetry funding prize, worth €2,000, goes to the author Sarah Kiyanrad. Kiyanrad is a poet, translator and Iranian scholar and teaches Iranian cultural history in Munich. Her volume of poetry “Years after you” was recently published at our publishing house. It's about places and people who have settled into oblivion, about small and large things that are lost before our eyes. We congratulate

Introductory word by Johannes Feest Reading with the authors Inge Buck and Madjid Mohit, on 19.3. 2023 at the Parkhotel Bremen "The lyrical dialogue between the poems by Madjid Mohit and Inge Buck is at the same time in a field of tension between the Western and Eastern worlds, between strangeness and familiarity, closeness and distance, connoted by one's own cultural and biographical experiences. An adventure of encounters in word, text and writing.” That's what the press release says. It's hard to say more precisely what we're doing here

In mid-March 2023, Interbiblio is organizing a bilingual reading tour through Swiss (member) libraries with Fariba Vafi. The books “Tarlan”, “The Dream of Tibet” and “To the Rain”, which have been published by our publishing house, will be read at the individual readings. Here is an excerpt from the article: «Unsettled, Unbound: Women in search of independence in contemporary Iranian literature» Interbiblio celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023 and organizes a bilingual reading tour of Swiss (member) libraries in March 2023 with the Iranian author Fariba, who has won several international awards

New rooms and new perspectives After months of planning, the time has come – we are leaving the rooms on Breitenweg and moving to nearby Bornstrasse. So far we were actually easy to reach on foot, but in the new rooms we are closer to readers and customers, because we no longer have an expressway in front of the door. Better yet, we have more space for new ideas. Because now the possibility opens up that we can hold SUJET events, readings, films and writing workshops in the rooms

For a new article in the taz, Nassir Djafari met Shirin Sojitrawalla in Frankfurt's Palmengarten to talk about himself and his book "Mahtab". Here's a little foretaste: “Djafari tells the story exclusively from Mahtob's perspective. He modeled it on his own mother, he says in an interview. It's not her biography, but she is similar in type to her: reserved and quiet. Her husband Amin also reminds a little of his own father. He is a very

This year's Frankfurt Book Fair is over and even though we weren't there as an exhibitor this year, we were there. There we collected a lot of impressions, had discussions and attended events. Of course, the trade fair was all about this year's guest country Spain. We are also suitably equipped: Our new volume of poetry “Prophecy according to nature” by Juan Andrés GarcÍa Román was translated into German by Piero Salabè, but the original Spanish texts were not removed. So you can find on everyone

Nassir Djafari met Gerrit Mai in Frankfurt to talk about his new novel Mahtob. This resulted in a great article for the Frankfurter Neue Presse that makes you want to read it! Here's a little foretaste:

An article has been published in zenith magazine in which our author Widad Nabi is mentioned alongside other important Arabic authors in the German literary scene. Here is a little foretaste of the well-researched article by Elisabeth Knoblauch: