A few weeks after the German publication of his debut novel in 2024, author Matthias Jügler received a call from an employee at the German government agency tasked with investigating the human rights abuses of the socialist east. The call wasn’t overtly threatening; Jügler was asked to explain what historical source material he had consulted for…
David Malouf, the acclaimed Australian author of books including Ransom, An Imaginary Life and the Booker prize-nominated Remembering Babylon, has died aged 92. Malouf died on Wednesday, his publisher, Penguin Random House Australia, said in a statement on Thursday. “We are deeply saddened to share that author and poet David Malouf AO has passed away,”…
Shorouk Express Arian Leka in many ways is a peculiar phenomenon in the literary landscape of the Balkans and Europe as a whole. With his poems, short stories, essays and novels, he explores the idea of migration and exile in a thorough and coherent manner, with a particular focus on the Albanian experience, reflecting on…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email The author of a damning report into grooming gangs has revealed she found the word ‘Pakistani’ “tippexed out” in archive files about child victims….
