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Andreas Altmann, Das Scheissleben meines Vaters, das Scheissleben meiner Mutter und meine eigene Scheissjugend, Piper 2011 (‘My Father’s Shit Life, My Mother’s Shit Life and My Own Shit Youth‘) Memoir
Kevin Barry, Dark Lies The Island, Jonathan Cape 2012 Short Stories
Friedrich Christian Delius, Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde, rororo 2011 (1996) (‘The Sunday I Became World Champion‘) Long Story
The Shortlist. The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, A Waterstones Publication 2012 Six Short Stories
James Kelman, Mo said she was quirky, Hamish Hamilton 2012 Novel
Kiran Nagarkar, Ravan & Eddie, Penguin Books India 1995 Novel
AHRC CISS (ed.), Causeway / Cabhsair, Issue 4, Aberdeen 2011 A Magazine of Irish and Scottish Writing
Arno Camenisch, Ustrinkata, Engeler 2012 (‘Last Last Orders’) Novel
Urs Widmer, Herr Adamson, Diogenes 2010 (2009) (‘Herr Adamson‘) Novel
Andrew Greig, As Though We Were Flying, Bloodaxe 2011 Poems
Derick Thomson at 90: A Celebration, The Gaelic Books Council & The Scottish Poetry Library 2011 Poems
Kevin Barry, There Are Little Kindoms, The Stinging Fly 2010 (2007) Stories
Urs Widmer, Stille Post, Diogenes 2011 (‘Chinese Whispers‘) Short Prose
Urs Widmer, My Father’s Book, Seagull 2011 Novel
Rolf Hermann, Hommage an das Rückenschwimmen in der Nähe von Chicago und anderswo, X-Time 2007 (‘Hommage to swimming backstroke near Chicago and elsewhere’) Poems
Des Dillon, an experiment in compassion, Luath 2011 Novel
Janice Galloway, All Made Up, Granta 2011 Memoir
Laszlo Krasznahorkai & Max Neumann, Animalinside, Translated by Ottilie Mulzer, The Cahier Series 2010 Prose Texts & Paintings
Monica Cantieni, Grünschnabel, Schöffling & Co. 2011 (‘Greenhorn‘) Novel
AHRC CISS (ed.), Causeway / Cabhsair, Issue 3, Aberdeen 2011 A Magazine of Irish and Scottish Writing
Kunwar Narain, No Other World, Translated by Apurva Narain, Arc 2010 Selected Poems
Rolf Hermann, Kurze Chronik einer Bruchlandung, X-Time 2011 (‘Short Chronicle of a Crash Landing‘) Poems
Max Frisch, Montauk (‘Montauk‘, 1975) in: MF, Gesammelte Werke in zeitlicher Folge, Suhrkamp 1976, pp.617-754 Long Story
Angelika Overath, Alle Farben des Schnees, Luchterhand 2010 (‘All the Colours of the Snow‘) Diary
Urs Widmer: Liebesbrief für Mary, Diogenes 1995 (1993) (‘Love Letter for Mary‘) Long Story
Urs Widmer, Der blaue Siphon, Diogenes 1994 (1992) (‘The Blue Siphon‘) Long Story
Urs Widmer, Die sechste Puppe im Bauch der fünften Puppe im Bauch der vierten und andere Ueberlegungen zur Literatur, Diogenes 1995 (1991) (‘The Sixth Doll Within the Fifth Doll Within the Fourth and Other Considerations on Literature‘) Graz Lectures on Poetics
Urs Widmer, Vom Leben, vom Tod und vom Uebrigen auch dies und das, Diogenes 2007 (‘On Life, on Death, and on This and That of the Rest‘) Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics
David Kinloch, Finger of a Frenchman, Carcanet 2011 Poems
Abbas Khider, Die Orangen des Präsidenten, Nautilus 2011 (‘The President’s Oranges‘) Novel
Urs Widmer, My Mother’s Lover, Seagull Books 2011 Novel
Philip O’Ceallaigh (ed.), Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails, The Stinging Fly 2010 An Anthology of New Stories
Uwe Timm, Freitisch, Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2011 (‘Free Meals‘) Novella
Martin Zingg (ed.), New Swiss Writing 2011, Solothurn 2011 Anthology
James McGonigal, Passage / An Pasaiste, Mariscat Press 2004 Long Poem
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Jonathan Cape 2003 Novel
David Nicholls, One Day, Hodder & Stoughton 2010 (2009) Novel
Norman MacCaig, The Many Days (ed. Roderick Watson), Polygon 2010 Selected Poems
James McGonigal, Cloud Pibroch, Mariscat 2010 Poems
Marc Lambert (ed.), Spirit of Jura, Polygon 2010 Fiction, Essays, Poems
Alan Bissett & Carl MacDougall (ed.), Stone Going Home Again, ASLS 2010 New Writing Scotland
AHRC CISS (ed.), Causeway / Cabhsair, Issue 2, Aberdeen 2010 A Magazine of Irish and Scottish Writing
Adam O’Riordan, In the Flesh, Chatto & Windus 2010 Poems
Allan Morrison, Ah Couldnae Believe Ma Ears, Hachette Scotland 2009 Overheard Banter
Dermot Healey, A Fool’s Errand, Gallery Books 2010 Poems
Frank O’Connor, Larry Delaney: Lonesome Genius, Killeen 1996 The Larry Delaney Stories
Colin Begg & Adrian Searle (ed.), Gutter 3, Glasgow 2010 The magazine of new Scottish writing
Françoise Pillet, Molène, Éditions Theatrales 2004 (‘Molène‘) Play
Andreas Neeser, Unsicherer Grund, Haymon 2010 (‘Uncertain Terrain‘) Stories
Jeanne Painchaud, Soudain, Les Éditions David 2002 (‘Suddenly‘) Haiku
Jeanne Painchaud, Je marche à côté d’une joie, Les 400 coups 2006 (1997) (‘I am walking alongside a joy‘) Instananés / Instantaneous Poems
Marie-Thérèse Schmitz, L’amour du diable, Gallimard 2002 (‘The Love of the Devil’) Novel
Carlos Liscano, L’écrivain et l’autre, Belfond 2010 (‘The Writer and the Other (Person)‘) In Place of an Unfinished Novel
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Beckett et Genet, un thé à Tanger, Gallimard 2010 (‘Beckett and Genet, Tea in Tangiers‘) Play
Marie-Thérèse Schmitz, Nu à la chaise, Gallimard 2010 (‘Nude, by the chair‘) Novel
Denis Langlois, Slogans pour les prochaines révolutions, Éditions du Seuil 2008 (‘Slogans for Future Revolutions‘) Graffiti (to mark 40th anniversary of 1968)
Felix Kauf & Michael Mettler, H stellt sich vor, Echtzeit 2010 (‘H introduces himself or H imagines‘) 87 shorts
Paul Oppenheimer, In Times of Danger, Spuyten Duyvil (due January 2011) 95 Sonnets
Jürg Halter, Nichts, das mich hält, Ammann 2008 (‘Nothing holding me‘) Poems
William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, New Direction books 1963 (1949) Poems
Pedro Lenz, Der Goalie bin ig, Der gesunde Menschenverstand 2010 (‘The Goalie’s Me‘) Novel – in Swiss dialect
Arno Camenisch, Hinter dem Bahnhof, Engeler 2010 (‘Behind the Station‘) Novel
Christoph Simon, Spaziergänger Zbinden, bilgerverlag 2010 (‘Zbinden Goes for a Walk‘) Novel
Seamus Heaney, Electric Light, Faber 2001 Poems
Barry Wallenstein, Tony’s World, Birch Book Press 2009 Poems
Wolfgang Bortlik, Fischer hat Durst, Salis 2009 (‘Fischer is Thirsty‘) Novel
Svenja Herrmann, Ausschwaermen, Wolfbach Verlag 2010 (‘Swarm‘) Poems
Caro Ramsay, Dark Water, Penguin 2010 Crime Novel
Edwin Morgan, Dreams and Other Nightmares. New and Uncollected Poems 1954-2009, Mariscat 2010 Poems
Louise Stern, Chattering, Granta 2010 Stories
Chris Powici (ed.), Northwords Now, Issue 15, Inverness 2010 Literary Magazine
Claire Keegan, Foster, Faber 2010 Story
Alan Spence, morning glory, Renaissance Press 2010 Haiku & Tanka. Illustrated by Elizabeth Blackadder
Joy Hendry, Chapman 110, Edinburgh 2010 Scotland’s Quality Literary Magazine
AHRC CISS (ed.), Causeway / Cabhsair, Issue 1, Aberdeen 2010 A Magazine of Irish and Scottish Writing
Andrew Greig, At the Loch of the Green Corrie, Quercus 2010 Non-Fiction
Arno Camenisch: Hinter dem Bahnhof, Urs Engeler 2010 (‘Behind the Station‘) Novel
Colin Begg & Adrian Searle (ed.), Gutter, No.2. Glasgow 2010 The Magazine of New Scottish Writing
Peter Bichsel, Kindergeschichten, Suhrkamp 2005 (Luchterhand 1969) (‘Stories for Children‘) Stories
Peter Bichsel, Eigentlich moechte Frau Blum den Milchmann kennenlernen, Suhrkamp 1997 (Walter-Verlag 1964) (‘And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman‘) 21 Stories
Hannes Binder / Peter Stamm, Heidi. Nach der Geschichte von Johanna Spyri, Nagel & Kimche 2008 (‘Heidi. After the Story by Johanna Spyri‘) Children’s Book
Max Frisch, Entwürfe zu einem dritten Tagebuch, Suhrkamp 2010 (‘Drafts for a Third Diary‘) Diary
Kenneth Steven, The Ice & Other Stories, Argyll 2010 Stories
Ulrike Ulrich, fern bleiben, Luftschacht Verlag 2010 (‘stay away‘) Novel
Nicol Ljubic, Meeresstille, Hoffmann und Campe 2010 (‘A Calm Sea‘) Novel
Simon Froehling, Lange Naechte Tag, bilgerverlag 2010 (‘Long Nights Day‘) Novel
James Kelman, if it is your life, Hamish Hamilton 2010, Stories
Franco Supino, Solothurn liegt am Meer, knapp 2009 (‘Solothurn is by the Sea‘) Stories, Texts, Speeches
Peter Bichsel, Der Leser. Das Erzaehlen, Luchterhand 1984 (1982) (‘The Reader. Storytelling‘) Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics
Urs Widmer, Das Buch des Vaters, Diogenes 2005 (2004) (‘My Father’s Book‘) Novel
Victor Terán: Poems / Diidxado’, Poetry Translation Centre 2010 Poems - Translated from Zapotec by David Shook
Paulette Dubé, Gaits, Thistledown Press 2010 Poems
Urs Widmer, Der Geliebte der Mutter, Diogenes 2003 (2000) (‘My Mother’s Lover‘) Novel
Abbas Khider, Der falsche Inder, Nautilus 2008 (‘The Village Indian‘) Novel
Donny O’Rourke, One Light Burning, Bonny Day 2007 Poems
Cormac McCarthy, The Road, Picador 2006 Novel
Tim Krohn, Ans Meer, Galiani Berlin 2009 (‘To the Sea‘) Novel
Liam Browne, The Emigrant’s Farewell, Bloomsbury 2006 Novel
Stuart Kelly (ed.): Headshook. Contemporary Novelists and Poets Writing on Scotland’s Future, Hachette 2009 Anthology
Philip O Ceallaigh: The Pleasant Light of Day, Penguin Ireland 2009 Short Stories
Kathrin Schmidt, Du stirbst nicht, Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2009 (‘You are not dying‘) Novel
Tom Leonard, outside the narrative, Poems 1965-2009, Etruscan & Word Power Books 2009 Poems
Raymond Carver, Beginners, Jonathan Cape 2009 Short Stories – The Original Version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture, Picador 2006 (2005) Poems
Jürgen Theobaldy, Zweiter Klasse, Rotbuch 1976 (‘Second Class‘) Poems
Jürgen Theobaldy, Blaue Flecken, Rowohlt 1974 (‘Bruises‘) Poems
Marusa Krese, Heute nicht / Danes ne, Drava Verlag 2009 (‘Not today‘) Poems – Translated from Slovene by Fabjan Hafner
Marusa Krese, All meine Weihnachten, Drava Verlag 2006 (‘All My Christmases‘) Short Prose - Translated from Slovene by Fabjan Hafner
Brian McCabe (ed.), Passing Place, Edinburgh Review 126, Edinburgh 2009 Literary Magazine
Alan Bissett & Liz Niven, In The Event of Fire, ASLS 2009 New Scottish Writing
Colin Begg & Adrian Searle (ed.), Gutter, No.1. Glasgow 2009 The Magazine of New Scottish Writing
A L Kennedy, What Becomes, Jonathan Cape 2009 Short Stories
Ali Smith, the first person & other stories, Hamish Hamilton 2008 Short Stories
Herta Müller: Atemschaukel, Hanser 2009 Novel
János Térey: KaltWasserKult, merz&solitude 2007, (‘ColdWaterCult‘) Poems - Translated from Hungarian by Orsolya Kalász & Monika Rinck
Daniel Oliver Bachmann: Anthony, oder: Mein wildes Leben mit dem Wilden, Manuscript 2009, (‘Anthony, or: My Wild Life with the Wild Man‘) Satire
Modris Zihmanis: Sibirischer Hardrock, Latvia 2009, (‘Siberian Hardrock‘) Poems – Translated from Latvian by Silvija Gibiete
Liam McIlvanney: All the Colours of the Town, Faber 2009. Novel
Andrew O’Hagan & Colm Toibin (ed.): New Writing 11, Picador 2002. New Writing Anthology
Raymond Carver & Tom Jenks (ed.): American Short Story Masterpieces, Dell Publishing 1989 (1987). Short Stories
Don Paterson: The Blind Eye. A Book of Late Advice, Faber 2007. Aphorisms
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker: Magdalenaberg, Hoffmann und Campe 2009, (‘Magdalene Hill‘). Novel
Valzyna Mort: Traenenfabrik, Suhrkamp 2009, (‘Factory of Tears‘). Poems - Translated from Bellorussian by Katharina Narbutovic
Arno Camenisch: Sez Ner, Urs Engeler 2009. Novel - Bi-lingual text, Rhaeto-Romanic & German; named after the mountain Piz Sez Ner
Peter Rosei: Das grosse Töten, Residenz Verlag 2009, (‘A Shooting Spree‘). Novel
Daniel Zahno: Die Geliebte des Gelatiere, Weissbooks 2009, (´The Gelatiere´s Lover´). Novel
Ralf Rothmann: Hitze, Suhrkamp 2005 (2003), (´Heat´). Novel
Nora Gomringer: Klimaforschung, Voland & Quist 2008, (‘Climate Research‘). Poems
Ralf Rothmann: Feuer brennt nicht, Suhrkamp 2009, (‘Fire doesn’t burn‘). Novel
Ralf Rothmann: Vollkommene Stille. Rede zur Verleihung des Max Frisch-Preises 2006, Suhrkamp 2006, (‘Complete Silence. Acceptance speech upon receipt of the Max Frisch Prize 2006‘). Speech
Pedro Lenz: Plötzlech hets di am Füdle. Banale Geschichten, Cosmos 2009, (‘Aw ae a sudden yir caught wrang-fitted‘). ‘Banal Stories’
Caro Ramsay: Absolution, Penguin 2008 (2007). Crime novel
Daniel Glattauer: Gut gegen Nordwind, Goldmann 2008 (2006), (‘Good for North Winds‘). (E-mail) Novel
Stephen Watts: Mountain Language / Lingua di montagna, Hearing Eye 2008. Prose poems / ‘Scrolls’
Ralf Rothmann: Ein Winter unter Hirschen, Suhrkamp 2003 (2001), (‘A Winter Among Stags‘). Stories
Francis McKee & Louise Shelley (ed.): 2HB vol.1, CCA Glasgow 2009. A new quarterly
Isobel Murray (ed.): Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald 2006. Interviews
David Peace: The Damned Utd, Faber 2007 (2006). Novel
Brian Whittingham: Bunnets n Bowlers. A Clydeside Odyssey, Luath 2009. Poems
Hilde Ziegler: Waehrend der Verlobung wirft einer einen Hering an die Decke. 198 Erinnerungen eines Kindes, Lenos 2003 (1988), (‘As the two get engaged, someone throws a herring at the ceiling. 198 memories of a child’). Autobiography
Junot Diaz: Drown, Faber 1996. Stories
Ralf Rothmann: Kratzer, Suhrkamp 1991 (1987), (‘Scratches’). Poems
Derek Jarman: Chroma, Vintage 2000 (1994). A Book of Colour / Autobiography
Ralf Rothmann: Rehe am Meer, Suhrkamp 2008, (‘Deer by the Sea’). Stories
Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road, Methuen 2001 (1961). Novel
François Bégaudeau : Entre les murs, Editions Gallimard 2006, (‘The Class‘). Novel - the film version of this book won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2008
Julieann Campbell & Tom Herron (ed.): Harrowing of the Heart. The Poetry of Bloody Sunday, Guildhall Press 2008. A Collection of Poetry, Song and Drama
Lara Vapnyar: Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, Pantheon Books 2008. Stories
John McGahern: Creatures of the Earth, Faber 2006. New and Selected Stories
David Park: The Truth Commissioner, Bloomsbury 2008. Novel
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories, Everyman’s Library 1995. Stories
Peter Manson: Between Cup and Lip, Miami University Press 2008. Poems
Rolf Lappert: Nach Hause Schwimmen, Hanser Verlag 2008, (‘Swimming Home’). Novel
Franco Supino: Das andere Leben, Rotpunktverlag 2008, (‘The Other Life’). Novel
Janice Galloway: This is Not About Me, Granta 2008. Memoir
Kurt Aebli: Ich bin eine Nummer zu klein fuer mich, Urs Engeler 2007. (‘I am a size too small for myself’) Poems
Chris Dolan: Hour after hour, Glasgow 2008; published as part of Glasgow’s Cultural Pathfinder project for older people. Stories
Liz Niven & Brian Whittingham (ed.): Bucket of Frogs, ASLS 2008. New Writing Scotland
lights off the quay, Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008. New Writing from Scotland
John Brown (ed.): Magnetic North. The Emerging Poets, The Verbal Arts Centre / The Lagan Press 2006). Poems from the North of Ireland
Peter Stamm: Wir Fliegen, S. Fischer 2008, (‘Flying‘). Short Stories
Emily Raboteau: The Professor’s Daughter, Henry Holt 2005. Novel
jhumpa lahiri: interpreter of maladies, Flamingo 1999. Short Stories
Damijan Sinigoj & Lenart Zajc: A Lazy Sunday Afternoon, Slovene Writers’ Association 2007. Short Stories by Slovene writers born after 1960
Ales Steger & Mitja Cander: Zu zweit nirgendwo. Neue Erzaehlungen aus Slovenien, Suhrkamp 2006, (‘the two of us nowhere‘). Short Stories from Slovenia
Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, translated by Jeremy Leggatt, Harper Perennial 2008). Memoir
Maggie Graham: Sitting Among the Eskimos, Headline Review 2000. Novel
Max Frisch / Uwe Johnson: Der Briefwechsel, Suhrkamp 1999. Letters
Andrej Skubic: Fuzine Blues, translated by David Limon, Slovene Writers’ Association 2007. Novel
James Kelman: Kieron Smith, Boy, Hamish Hamilton 2008. Novel
