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Wolfgang Hilbig (1941-2007) was one of the major German writers to emerge in the postwar era. Though raised in East Germany, he proved so troublesome to the authorities that in 1985 he was granted permission to emigrate west. The author of over 20 books, he received virtually all of Germany's major literary prizes, capped by the 2002 Georg B�chner Prize, Germany's highest literary honor. Isabel Fargo Cole is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. Her translations include Boys and Murderers by Hermann Ungar (Twisted Spoon Press, 2006), All the Roads Are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (Seagull Books, 2011), The Jew Car by Franz F�hmann (Seagull Books, 2013), and five other books by Wolfgang Hilbig for Two Lines Press. The recipient of a prestigious PEN/Heim Translation Grant, she is the initiator and co-editor of No-mans-land.org, an online magazine for new German literature in English.
"""Work and nature wrestle everywhere in these stories...the simplest turns of phrase delight"" --Kirkus Reviews Praise for Wolfgang Hilbig ""Comic and terrifying and profound."" --Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books of 2021) ""Hilbig's was among the most significant prose and poetry written not just in the GDR but in all of postwar Germany--East or West."" --Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus ""-Evokes the luminous prose of W.G. Sebald."" --The New York Times ""[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany."" --Los Angeles Review of Books ""Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature."" --L�szl� Krasznahorkai, author of Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming and Satantango ""[Hilbig] could very well be the writer for our time."" --Boston Review ""Whenever I read Hilbig's books...I am profoundly shaken. This language practically slices me open."" --Clemens Meyer, author of Bricks and Mortar"
