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We're pleased to announce that Anne Posten, student of Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation, has been awarded the inaugural Loose Translation Prize, a new annual competition sponsored by Queens College, the City University of New York and Hanging Loose Press. Posten won the prize for her translation of Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler's novella, Der Schöne Ort. Posten's translation has been published by Hanging Loose Press under the title This Beautiful Place, making it the only piece by Tankred Dorst available in English. Of her translation, Anne Posten has written, "Despite its great importance and influence on German theater and letters, Dorst's work is still relatively unknown in America. This is particularly ironic given the strong influence of American culture, not to mention the country itself, on both his writing and personal history. At the age of 17, Dorst was conscripted into the German army but was soon captured and sent to an internment camp up the Hudson River. There, he became fascinated by American culture, which has continued to influence his work, particularly the episodic film style of directors like Robert Altman, so American readers have a chance to experience American culture through German eyes."
Hanging Loose Press invites you to join them in a Celebration of the Book tomorrow, June 1st, from 6:00-8:00pm in Poets House's Kray Hall.
Considered Germany's most prestigious literary honor, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, awarded by the 
Deutsches Haus writer-in-residence 
Greenlight, one of Brooklyn's most active bookstores, offers a number of events and book groups, among them their Young Readers Book Group for readers 8 to 14 years of age. On May 22 the group will discuss The Neverending Story by German author Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim. This modern classic is the tale of a boy named Bastian, who, fascinated by an old book called The Neverending Story and its magical world of Fantastica, discovers that he himself has become a character in the story. When Fantastica's existence is threatened, will Bastian be able to save it?
Theater director Daniel Brunet brings young German playwright 
