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Our French-language booktubing project. Same concept, same presenter, but in French! Zut alors!

The literary scene in Germany is as diverse and colorful as the population. Be it groups of young writers or magazines in very small, self-published editions, find out more about exciting things from the German literary scene!

We present one of the correspondences between Quebec and European Writers that were organized as part of the Festival international de la littérature (FIL), this year the one between the authors Catherine Mavrikakis from Quebec and Pierre Jarawan from Germany.

Every week we present a book from our collection that we find particularly interesting, exciting, instructive or otherwise particularly worth reading. This week we continue to celebrate the month of graphic novels, and the upcoming Montreal Comic Arts Festival:

Helena Baumeister, "oh cupid" (Avant, Berlin 2022)

In times of the pandemic, Helena longs for encounters and closeness and arranges to meet someone via an online dating platform. The fourth man she meets this way only has an unspectacular photo in his profile. Nevertheless, Helena agrees to his suggestion that they go on a bike ride together.

Helena Baumeister received the Hamburg Literature Prize 2021 for Best Comic as well as the "Peng!" prize for Best German-language Comic at the Munich Comic Festival for oh cupid.