AGHI in Translation, featuring Max Lawton with Will Evans and Jeanne-Marie Jackson: SCHATTENFROH
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins and Deep Vellum have recently launched an exciting new partnership focused on bringing the world’s greatest writers into dialogue across academic and public spheres. Bird in Hand Coffee & Books couldn’t be more thrilled to help celebrate this new collaboration!
Beginning in 2025, the AGHI will support the production, publication, and promotion of one work of literary translation annually with a sustaining grant, a translator residency, and public events on the Johns Hopkins campus. By producing and promoting major works of literary translation, the AGHI and Deep Vellum aim to deepen literary engagement in the city of Baltimore, across the nation, and throughout the world.
The first book to be supported by this partnership is the hotly anticipated Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz, translated from the German by Max Lawton. Heralded as “a literary landmark” and “a novel of titanic ambition” in a starred review from Foreword Reviews, Schattenfroh is an intricate, metaphysical, ambitious “psychogeography of the self” that both disrupts and elevates the 21st century vision of the novel.
Translator Max Lawton will be in residence at Johns Hopkins University this November, and we are delighted to invite you to this kickoff event where he will speak in conversation with Will Evans, the founder and publisher of Deep Vellum. Dr. Jeanne-Marie Jackson will moderate the conversation.
