Authors: Anna Katharina Hahn
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Shorter Days
Copyright © 2009 Anna Katharina Hahn
Copyright © 2009 Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin
All rights reserved by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin
Translation copyright © 2014 by Anne Posten
First published in Berlin, Germany as
Kürzere Tage
.
ISBN 978-0-9891267-8-6
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The translation includes quotes from Grimm's Fairy Tales translated by Margaret Hunt; Friedrich Schiller's “The Hostage,” translated by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton; Ludwig Uhland's “The Minstrel's Curse,” translated by Margarete Münsterberg; Gottfried Bürger's “Lenore,” translated by William Taylor; Helen Ferris's
Favorite Poems Old and New, Selected for boys and girls
, “To the Lady-Bird”; Paul Gerhard's “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded,” translated by J.W. Alexander; Martin Rinkart's “Now Thank We All Our God,” translated by Catherine Winkworth; and Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm's “Aschenputtel,” translated by Lucy Crane.
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Anna Katharina Hahn
was born in 1970. Her other works include the collection of stories
Kavaliersdelikt
(“Petty Crime”), for which she was awarded the Clemens Brentano Prize in 2005, and
Am Schwarzen Berg
(“The Neighbors”) in 2012. In 2010, Anna Katharina Hahn was awarded the Heimito von Doderer Literary Award.
Shorter Days
was longlisted for the German Book Prize in 2009.
Anne Posten
is a writer and translator of contemporary German writing. Translations and original work have appeared in
Gigantic
Words Without Borders
,
FIELD
,
Stonecutter
,
Hanging Loose
, and
-ality
and are forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press, The University of Chicago/Christine Burgin, and Haus Publishing.
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