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Frankfurt Bookfair 2012: An Aotearoa Affair

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Frankfurt Bookfair 2012: An Aotearoa Affair

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International Book Fair Frankfurt 2012 – guest country New Zealand & more

10 Saturday Nov 2012

Posted by Dorothee Lang in Uncategorized

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book fair, books, ebooks, Frankfurt, Germany, New Zealand

We said Carnival 5: A VIEW FROM HERE was the last Blog Carnival, but when we saw the photos, links and updates from Frankfurt, we knew we had to put together one more carnival edition.

So we bring you a special addendum to the 2012 Blog Carnival series: a final Carnival which features reports from the Book Fair:

BLOG CARNIVAL 6: ALL ABOUT FRANKFURT

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Below, in addition, some impressions from the book fair with extra photos:

Guest Country New Zealand at Frankfurt Book Fair

Like all guest countries, New Zealand had an own pavillion to present itself, in addition to the different book presentations in the book halls. Here are some impressions from the pavillion:

“while you were sleeping”
 inside the pavillion: the meeting area, and upstairs: the presentation area

New Zealand in the international hall

New Zealand in the Comic Centre of the Book Fair
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And some general impressions from the book fair: 
authors
books + books
and the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to… Mo Yan
(more here in an extra blog post: words, wars, books..)
Comics
Forum Discussions: E-Books (the neverending theme)
Open Air Reading Zone
Science Books

CERN at the Book Fair with the Higgs-Field + the 1. www-server, more here:
the beginning of the web: “vague but exciting”

E-Book Installation
Reading Tent
word cubes: to learn, to know, to explore
and: Gutenberg Museum at the Book Fair
Handmade Prints
Frankfurt Skyline
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Highlight: Marcus Speh and Christopher Allen in dialogue

03 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by Michelle Elvy in highlights

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Germany, interview, language, life, literature, London, Neuseeland, New Zealand, writing

Expat author Christopher Allen recently interviewed the German author Marcus Speh (who often writes in English) at his blog I Must Be Off. Together, Allen and Speh explore questions of home, belonging, travel, inspiration, New Zealand, and writing and meaning in different languages. The interview is both in English und auf deutsch, here are the starting passages:

A perfect thing to highlight here at our Aotearoa Affair. See links to the full interviews here:

Christopher Allen’s Expat Author Interview with Marcus Speh in English.

Christopher Allens Expat Author Interview mit Marcus Speh — die deutsche Version.  

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About Christopher Allen and Marcus Speh:

Christopher Allen is the author of Conversations with S. Teri O’Type (a Satire). His fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous places both online and in print. He edits for Metazen, a daily literary ezine, and writes book reviews for Books at Fictionaut (see his recent review of Sheldon Lee Compton’s The Same Terrible Storm). Allen has been a Pushcart Prize nominee, a finalist at Glimmer Train and the recipient of a few other writing awards. He lives in Germany, where he teaches Business English, but spends a lot of his time traveling.

Christopher Allen, amerikanischer Autor der Satire Conversations with S. Teri O’Type (Englisch), lebt in Deutschland. Seine Kurzgeschichten findet man in literarischen “Ezines” wie Blue Five Notebook Series, SmokeLong Quarterly und A- Minor. Allen ist bei der Redaktion von Metazen und schreibt auch Buchkritiken für “Books at Fictionaut”). Unter anderem wurde Allen für den Pushcart Prize nominiert und auch ausgewählt als Finalist beim Glimmer Train. Allen reist sehr gern, vielleicht zu gern.

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Marcus Speh ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller, der Prosa auf Englisch schreibt. 2002 lebte er mit seiner Familie in New Lynn und lehrte an der University of Auckland. 
Seine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten Thank You For Your Sperm wird Ende 2012 bei MadHat Press erscheinen. 

 
Marcus Speh is a German writer who writes prose in English. In 2002 he lived with his family in New Lynn and taught at the University of Auckland. His debut collection of short fiction Thank You For Your Sperm will be published at the end of 2012 by MadHat Press. 

Blog Carnival #4: Flash Across Borders

03 Tuesday Jul 2012

Posted by Dorothee Lang in carnival

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bilingual, Blog, blog carnival, bookfair, flash, flash fiction, Germany, literature, New Zealand

Dear Aotearoa Affair readers and followers —

Welcome to our fourth edition of the Aotearoa Affair Blog Carnival, themed FLASH ACROSS BORDERS. 

This edition is packed with twenty-six lively tales. Also inlcuded: notes + quotes on the flash format. Hope you enjoy and please pass along.  We’ll be tweeting and posting more on Facebook throughout the week.

Blog Carnival #3: BI

16 Wednesday May 2012

Posted by Michelle Elvy in carnival

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bilateral, bilingual, Blog, blog carnival, bookfair, Germany, literature, New Zealand

BI. Guest edited by Christopher Allen in Munich. In celebration of the bilateral literary relationship between Germany and New Zealand, we feature stories, poems, travel essays, photos, interviews, films, songs and more  from TWO perspectives: bilingual, bisexual, bipartisan, binational, bipolar…

Contributors: Hinemoana Baker, James Nicholas, Marcus Speh, Tim Jones, Elena Bossi, Penelope Todd, Lori Fischer,  Federico Federici, David Nettleingham, Raewyn Alexander, Aiden-Barrett Howard, Helen Lowe, Stella Pierides-Müller, Trish Nicholson, Rae Roadley, Foster Trecost, Walter Bjorkman, Tania Hershman, Christopher Allen, Dorothee Land and Michelle Elvy.

Link: Blog Carnival #3: BI

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