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The authors discussed in this series are the leading writers of the younger generation in Germany. The volumes offer introductions to contemporary German writers and critical assessments of their work.

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This volume contains an interview with Hein, a previously unpublished prose piece by him, a biography and critical articles which examine individuals texts.

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Esther Dischereit is a Berlin-based, Jewish-German author, who has played a prominent literary and cultural role in Germany since the 1980s. This volume examines Dischereit's explorations of female Jewish-German identity in her novels, poems, plays and essays, and how she views her position as a Jewish-German writer in the post-Holocaust Germany.

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The first book in English to be devoted exclusively to Herta Muller, this collection of essays is intended both as an introduction for the general reader and a resource for the specialist. It contains ten previously unpublished short texts by Muller, together with an interview and a biographical outline.

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Kerstin Hensel is one of the most productive young writers in Germany. This volume begins with a story by Hensel, and an interview with the author. Subsequent essays analyse all aspects of her writing, including poetry, plays and prose.

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This collection of essays devoted to the Swiss German writer, Peter Bichsel is intended both as an introduction for the general reader and as a resource for the specialist.