Isabel Fargo Cole

Isabel Fargo Cole is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. Her other translations include The Sleep of the Righteous, by Wolfgang Hilbig (Two Lines Press); The Jew Car, by Franz Fühmann; Collected Essays, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; and “I,” by Wolfgang Hilbig (all with Seagull Books). She also edits the online translation journal no man’s land.

The Females by Wolfgang Hilbig
By Wolfgang Hilbig

Wolfgang Hilbig
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2018. 136 pages. One of the many reasons Wolfgang Hilbig left the German Democratic Republic might have been that, as his narrator suddenly realizes, all at once there…
Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig
By Wolfgang Hilbig

Wolfgang Hilbig
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2017. 108 pages. The setting of Old Rendering Plant is the German Democratic Republic in which Wolfgang Hilbig grew up. In a veritable perversion of the conven…
The Sleep of the Righteous by Wolfgang Hilbig
By Wolfgang Hilbig

Wolfgang Hilbig
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2015. 163 pages. It is gratifying to see Wolfgang Hilbig’s work appear in translation, if posthumously, because of the unique perspective on the former East and the new…
I by Wolfgang Hilbig
By Wolfgang Hilbig

Wolfgang Hilbig
New York. Seagull Books. 2015. 293 pages. Decades after the Battle of Berlin and the fall of Nazi Germany, sociologists and laymen alike still puzzle over one of the most vexing questions to come out…
Typhoid (an excerpt)
By Klaus Hoffer
January 2016
Klaus Hoffer
First published in two parts in 1979 and 1983, Among the Bieresch was praised by critics, winning the Rauris Literature Prize and the Döblin Prize. Forthcoming in English translation fro…
Coming

August 19, 2015 Wolfgang Hilbig
Set in an old house in provincial East Germany, “Coming” begins with a boy’s memories of the ghastly suicidal wails of the women who lived in his neighborhood. Trying to escape these painful cries…