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Iris Wolff has been awarded the 2025 Konrad Adenauer Foundation Literature Prize, one of Germany’s most prestigious prizes, honouring writers who ‘give freedom a voice’. In awarding the prize worth 20,000 Euros, the jury made reference to her groundbreaking contribution to the European culture of remembrance and to the topicality of her novels with their themes of belonging and the diversity of language and religions in Europe.

As part of Romania’s contribution to the 2025 London Book Fair, Monique Charlesworth will be joining Neil Astley, Denisa Comānescu and Dan Plesa to discuss literary translation at the Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1 8PH, on March 13 at 7pm. The panel will be moderated by Alexandra Buchler. Tickets at: BOOK ONLINE

Iris Wolff has been awarded the Spycher Prize for Clearings. The prize gives the winner accommodation and writing time in Leuk in Switzerland over a period of five years.

Monique Charlesworth is a judge for the Love Letters to London Prize 2025. The prize will be awarded on Saturday, March 29 at St Paul’s Cathedral.

Iris Wolff has won the Uwe-Johnson-Preis worth 20,000 Euros for her novel Clearings, one of 90 works submitted. The prize, now in its 30th year, marks 90 years since Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) was born. It is awarded for outstanding literary works which connect both to Johnson’s poetics and to his ‘simple truths’ about German history, its past and future. It was last awarded to Jenny Erpenbeck in 2022 for her novel Kairos.

Imogen Taylor has won the Austrian Cultural Forum 2024 Translation Prize for her translation of a passage from Vladimir Vertlib’s Die Heimreise.

Monique Charlesworth’s Mother Country was one of three memoirs shortlisted for the TLS Ackerley Prize 2024 for memoir and autobiography.

Julia Franck has recently spent a term in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles as resident fellow in the Thomas Mann House; she is working on a new book.

Iris Wolff’s new novel Clearings was shortlisted for the prestigious German Book Prize 2024. A best-seller in Germany, it was described by leading German newspaper Die Zeit as 'highly original', ‘a wonderful novel to remember, dream about and ponder', Clearings was also chosen as Die Zeit’s Book of the Month. Moth Books will be publishing this compelling novel in 2026.