poco.lit.
Mehr Sichtbarkeit für postkoloniale Literatur
und ein geschärfter Blick auf Machtstrukturen.
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Gold Diggers – poco.lit.
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian is a story grounded in real life struggles bolstered by ancient magic and spirituality, history, and a nerve-jangling heist. pocolit.com/en/2025/12/0...
03.12.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Seam of Gold – poco.lit.
In her latest essay, Priya Singh thinks about gold as an ancient system of empowerment and connects it to a recent experience at her gynecologist’s. pocolit.com/en/2025/11/1...
19.11.2025 11:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Theft – poco.lit.
It must be challenging to write your next book after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Abdulrazak Gurnah did it and you can read more about his latest novel #Theft here: pocolit.com/en/2025/11/1...
12.11.2025 11:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Stories Emerge in Tension”: An Interview with Dennis Mugaa – poco.lit.
Dennis Mugaa’s debut collection, ‘Half Portraits Underwater,’ has quickly marked him as one of the most compelling new voices in Kenyan literature. We've just published an interview with him
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29.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When We Were Birds – poco.lit.
A novel about loss and how to deal with it: When we were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
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02.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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29.09.2025 17:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
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Heutige Echos der Telegrafie von Nauen über Kamina nach Windhoek – poco.lit.
Im deutschen #Kolonialismus diente die #Funktechnik als Instrument kolonialer Kontrolle. Wir stellen euch Bücher und eine Ausstellung vor, in denen verschiedene Aspekte dieser Geschichte und ihrer Folgen verhandelt werden. pocolit.com/2025/09/12/h...
12.09.2025 06:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard – poco.lit.
Kiran Desai’s novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a reverse Alice in Wonderland where the protagonist is hellbent on escaping the madness of a world that stifles him – until he and his family learn how to manipulate it to their advantage. pocolit.com/en/2025/09/0...
03.09.2025 06:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
12. Special episode in English: Collaborative nature writing – a conversation with Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles – poco.lit.
poco.lit. hosts a German language #podcast. But, as an exception, our latest episode is in English. We hear from two members of the fieldnotes collective, Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles, about their recent publication “This too is a glistening”. tinyurl.com/hzvekxrp
27.08.2025 06:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Open Water – poco.lit.
Probably the most beautiful love story we've read in a long time. Caleb Azumah Nelson impresses with his poetic language throughout his debut novel Open Water. pocolit.com/en/2025/08/2...
20.08.2025 08:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
5 Books for Foodies – poco.lit.
Food writing is a diverse genre that explores food-related topics and goes far beyond recipes and cooking techniques. In literary works, food can, for example, be used as a metaphor, a thematic element, to explore identities or relationships. Here are some recommendations pocolit.com/en/2025/08/0...
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The House of Broken Bricks – poco.lit.
Fiona Williams' The House of Broken Bricks is a sad and beautiful story about the cracks in the lives of the Hembrys, a mixed-race family in rural Somerset. It's about grief, gardening, cooking, and, eventually, healing. pocolit.com/en/2025/07/1...
16.07.2025 09:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One Past, Two Futures: Britain’s Conflicted Path to Decolonisation – poco.lit.
New essay: it explores how public responses to the statues of Edward Colston in Bristol and Cecil Rhodes in Oxford expose tensions within Britain’s collective memory. pocolit.com/en/2025/07/0...
02.07.2025 07:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Edge of Water – poco.lit.
Olufunke Grace Bankole's novel artfully tells the story of three generations of women in Ibadan and New Orleans who try to follow their dreams, which is hard, because of patriarchal social structures, natural disasters and disregarded prophecies. pocolit.com/en/2025/06/1...
11.06.2025 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rosarita – poco.lit.
Anita Desai's latest novel is a reminder that a part of literature’s power is to take us outside of ourselves. Being lost in a story is not shameful, it’s important to our healing and sanity. So find yourself a few cozy, uninterrupted hours to settle down with Rosarita. pocolit.com/en/2025/06/0...
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ja, das stimmt! Haben wir ebenfalls sehr gerne gelesen!
29.05.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Von Luanda und Maputo nach Ost-Berlin: Erinnerungen afrikanischer Werktätiger an die DDR – poco.lit.
Marcia C. Schencks Buch Von Luanda und Maputo nach Ost-Berlin: Erinnerungen Afrikanischer Werktätiger an die DDR ist gerade in deutscher Übersetzung von Joe Paul Kroll im Ch. Links Verlag erschienen. poco.lit. durfte einen Auszug aus der Einleitung veröffentlichen. pocolit.com/2025/05/27/v...
27.05.2025 20:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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22.05.2025 07:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Übertretung – poco.lit.
Louise Kennedy’s „Übertretung“ spielt 1975, zum Höhepunkt der Troubles in Nordirland. In der Geschichte rund um die katholische Grundschullehrerin Cushla stellt Kennedy geschickt Fragen über Unrecht und Moral. Auf poco.lit. findet ihr unsere gesamte Rezension pocolit.com/2025/05/14/u...
14.05.2025 07:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Minor Cosmopolitan Intervention 2025
Our event with Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles this afternoon is part of the minor cosmopolitan intervention. Check out the full program, you'll notice that some of the events will be streamed. So if you can't make it in person, maybe see you on Zoom? www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosm...
10.05.2025 10:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“A radicle reaching for a home in the earth”: collaborative nature writing – poco.lit.
Are you in Berlin this Saturday? Then please join us for a conversation with Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles about collaborative nature writing. Date and time: May 10,2025, 4-5:30pm; Place: Spore Initative, Hermannstr. 86, 12051 Berlin. pocolit.com/en/2025/04/0...
06.05.2025 12:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Postkoloniale Ansätze in der Antidiskriminierungsarbeit: Welche Impulse können sie setzen? – poco.lit.
In einem Text für poco.lit. fragt Methu Tharavasa, welchen Beitrag postkoloniale Ansätze zur Antidiskriminierungsarbeit in Deutschland leisten können, und bezieht sich dabei auf viele Jahre Erfahrung in der Erwachsenenbildung. pocolit.com/2025/04/30/p...
30.04.2025 08:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
James – poco.lit.
Percival Everett’s latest novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett gives Jim the opportunity to tell his own story. And our new contributor Jana Künker reviewed the book for poco.lit. pocolit.com/en/2025/04/1...
22.04.2025 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bridging Narratives: Poco Lit
Wir durften poco.lit. im Rahmen der Bridging Narratives Veranstaltungsreihe im @lfbrecht.bsky.social vorstellen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qart...
14.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
For @wwborders.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on the reception of Indian literature in translation, what it means to play with language, and who gets to experiment:
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09.04.2025 15:52 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Literary Translation Summer School, online, 6 - 10 July 2026
Applications now open!
https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtranslates
Directors: Ros Schwartz & Holly Langstaff
Helen Vassallo 🇲🇹
Researching the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry
Writing about intersectional gender bias in translation
Translating women writers
Always learning
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwomen/
Sociologist and literary scholar unibas.ch
Books: Schreiben (2021), Gekränkte Freiheit/Offended Freedom (2022/2024), Zerstörungslust (2025)
Suhrkamp.de l Politybooks.com
https://linktr.ee/zerstoerungslust
New York’s leading institution for the culture and language of the German-speaking world.
Wir organisieren spannende Abendveranstaltungen vom Druckereibesuch bis zum Hörbuchverlag und haben im Blick, was die Branche umtreibt!
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Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/.
The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
wiss. Mitarbeiterin Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft @ Uni Paderborn //
jüdische Gegenwartsliteratur, Berlintexte, touristische Medien/Praktiken, Wetlands
A new magazine of international writing, featuring winners of the International Booker, Neustadt Prize and US National Book Award 🏴
An annual literary journal launching this year, featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Supporting and promoting literary translation in Ireland and around the world.
German Studies, U of Edinburgh. Translation History, Holocaust testimony, archives, interpreters at Holocaust trials. Audio drama and the Holocaust. Occasional Scottish political nonsense. He/him
Das Portal zu allen Themen aus der #Wisskomm von @w-i-d.de, @nawik.de und @wmk-karlsruhe.de
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Lesungen und Vorträge in Münster
(Gemeinnützige Organisation)
www.afrikanische-perspektiven.de
Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
writer, poet, reader 🌿 southbank new poets collective / ledbury critic 🪻 🏳️🌈 pratyusha.co.uk
juniorprofessor of anglophone literatures and cultures (university of trier) • views my own • she/her • #firstgen
website: https://www.jenniferleetsch.com/
“soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
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