The East German writer Irmtraud Morgner won her country’s National Prize for Literature in 1978. But she’s practically unknown in the US. Today, only her epic novel The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura has been translated into English. Professor Silke von der Emde of Vassar joins us for today’s edition of our Underappreciated Literature series.
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