A simple intervention, p.13
A Simple Intervention, page 13
Kaśka Bryla, Melanie Waelde and Dorothee Elmiger for reading and rereading this text, offering feedback and coming up with all kinds of suggestions. Laura Dshamilja Weber and Lina Muzur for editing this text with such dedication, intelligent questioning and patient commentary. Felicitas Hoppe for a stimulating correspondence. Julia Novacek and Hannah Martin for the many conversations about art and life, and Hannah for also coming up with the title. Julia Eichhorn and Zoë Martin for inspiration, coffee and sorting out contracts and everything else. The Strodehne crew for the unforgettable summer weeks that gave rise to my favourite passages. Carolin Krahl, Olivia Golde, Eva Schörkhuber, Jiaspa Fenzl and once again Kaśka Bryla from the Politisch Schreiben editorial team for all our work together, and for being there. Stella Sabin at Peirene Press and Marielle Sutherland for their meticulous work on the English translation. Anna Hetzer for accompanying me in my work and my life – I never want to do without again.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
yael inokai was born in 1989 in Basel. She won the 2018 Swiss Literature Prize for her second novel, Mahlstrom. Her third novel, A Simple Intervention, was longlisted for the 2022 German Book Prize and is her first work to be translated into English. Yael Inokai lives in Berlin and is an editor for the magazine Politisch Schreiben.
marielle sutherland was born in 1976 in Hartlepool. She has a PhD in German and is a translator at the German Historical Institute London. Her publications include the selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (co-translated with Susan Ranson) and Rulantica: Hidden Island by Michaela Hanauer. Marielle Sutherland was awarded the 2023 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize.
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Yael Inokai, A Simple Intervention
