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Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). as well as Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (2020). In 2024, her novel Kairos was awarded the International Booker Prize. Her work is translated into over thirty languages. Kurt Beals is a translator and professor at the University of Richmond.
Jenny Erpenbeck is an expert chronicler of this post-Wall era, from the highs and hopes of the 1990 to a pervasive Angst mode today... Erpenbeck applies her finely calibrated divining rod to chart that story down the decades * Financial Times * I enjoyed Erpenbeck's quirky reflections... Melancholy wisdom * Independent * In these tender, poignant pieces, Jenny Erpenbeck is attuned to the silence left in the wake of an absence or disappearance. She captures the ineffable quality of memory with a quiet, haunting intensity, where a sentence or a paragraph can turn on a word and devastate -- Mary Costello Meditative, moving and profoundly beautiful -- Edmund de Waal Beautifully minimalist * Gloss *
