There’s mystery within the creative process and a story behind every story. In the new podcast How I Wrote This, host Pamela Hensley sits down with acclaimed novelists, essayists, playwrights, translators, poets, and short story writers to learn more about their lives and the events that shaped their work.
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There’s mystery within the creative process and a story behind every story. In the new podcast How I Wrote This, host Pamela Hensley sits down with acclaimed novelists, essayists, playwrights, translators, poets, and short story writers to learn more about their lives and the events that shaped their work.
Finalist: Best Podcast: Arts, Culture, and Society - Digital Publishing Awards
Follow us on Instagram @howiwrotethisthepodcast
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Jenny Erpenbeck is one of Germany’s most celebrated authors. She’s written four novels that have been translated into English, a memoir, several short stories, plays, and a few librettos, including the one she finished just before we spoke.
Jenny writes about growing up in East Berlin and how her experience of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) shaped her worldview. Her novel, The End of Days won the Hans Fallada Prize and the International Foreign Fiction Prize while Go, Went, Gone, which prompted the critic James Wood to predict that she would one day win the Nobel Prize, won the Thomas Mann Prize and was longlisted for the Man Booker International. In May 2024, after this conversation was recorded, Jenny and her translator, Michael Hofmann, were the winners of the International Booker Prize for her latest novel, Kairos, about a love affair that crumbles while the East itself falls apart.
How I Wrote This is created and hosted by Pamela Hensley
Presented by Knockabout Media.
Original music track Attention to Details by Tyler K. Rauman
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