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Günter Grass

Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 17:30
Taylor Institute, Oxford

Come and find about about Nobel Prize Winner Günter Grass - his novels, his etchings and his poetry...

With Ray Ockenden, Alexandra Vinall and Karen Leeder, Tyalor Institute, 17.30pm 11 June 2015

Supported by Oxford University German Society

And hear Karen Leeder, Eugen Ruge, Lawrence Norfolk and Oliver Kamm  with Anne McElvoy on the Tin Drum on Free Thinking here

Don't Mind the Gap – An Evening of British and German Literature

Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 19:30
King's Place, 90 York Way London N1 9AG

A vibrant mixture of poetry and prose: The German Academy for Language and Literature, visiting London this year, is delighted to invite you to an evening with some of the best poets and novelists from the UK and from Germany, each a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature or of the German Academy.

Ulrike Almut Sandig in Oxford

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 17:30
Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor), Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG,

As part of her UK tour German poet, short story writer and performer Ulrike Almut Sandig

will appear in Oxford on Tuesday 3 March (7th week), 5.30pm,  Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor), Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG,

This will be a bilingual performance of poetry and prose, including specially commissioned new work and translations, sound art, film and a discussion of her new volume Buch gegen das Verschwinden (2015), followed by a reception. All welcome!

Agenda at New College: European Poetry of the Great War

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 17:30
New College Ante-Chapel followed by drinks in Lecture Room 6

Poetry magazine Agenda launches its special double issue Requiem: The Great War in New College Ante-Chapel.

Readings 5.30pm followed by drinks in Lecture room 6. All welcome.

Read more about the issue here and about the link between Agenda and New College here

Poetry Magazine Agenda launches special issue Requiem: The Great War in Oxford

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 17:30
New College Ante-Chapel followed by drinks in Lecture Room 6
Cover of Agenda 48, Nos. 3-4, November 2014

Poetry magazine Agenda launches its special double issue Requiem: The Great War in New College Ante-Chapel.

Readings 5.30pm followed by drinks in Lecture room 6. All welcome.

Read more about the issue here and about the link between Agenda and New College here

Translation Duel Cheltenham Literary Festival

Saturday, October 4, 2014 - 13:45
Sally-Ann Spenser, Shaun Whiteside and Karen Leeder

Karen Leeder umpired a fascinating Translation Duel at this year's Chlentenham Literary Festival. Two expert translators Shaun Whiteside and Sally Ann Spender go head to head transalting new work by German author Julia Franck. Disocvering the nitty-gritty of translation

'Torso of Polyphemus'

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 15:30
Torso of Polyphemus

Knowledge Exchange Fellow Karen Leeder reads and discusses her translation of the poem by Durs Grünbein, as part of a series of events on poetry and translation at the Southbank Centre.

She explores the poem's relationship to Rilke, the classical past and the challenges of translating German poetry into English.

Here you can listen to the 9 minute podcast:

Karen Leeder discusses gender, translation and Austrian poetry

Wednesday, January 1, 2014 - 17:30
School of Advanced Study London

A roundtable on gender and Austrian poetry at the School of Advanced Study, London with Allyson Fidder, Geoffrey C. Howes, Karen Leeder, Mike Mitchell, Marcela Pozarkova

See the podcast

A chance to talk about translating Evelyn Schlag

Raoul Schrott coming to UK

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 20:00
Raoul Schrott will launch his new volume The Sex of the Angel in London in October