Judith Hermann
Judith Hermann was born in 1970 in Berlin where she lives and works as a writer and film-maker. ‘This Side of the Oder’, which appeared in Granta 74, was taken from her first collection of short stories, The Summerhouse, Later. She has since written two collections of stories, Nothing But Ghosts (2003) and Alice (2009).
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Fiction | Issue 165
We Would Have Told Each Other Everything
Judith Hermann
‘The story distracts the readers from the heart of the matter; it distracts them from me.’
Fiction by Judith Hermann, translated by Katy Derbyshire.
Fiction | Issue 165
Nothing But Ghosts
Judith Hermann
‘Afterwards Ellen liked to say she had once been to America but couldn't remember it very well.‘
Fiction | Issue 165
This Side of the Oder
Judith Hermann
‘Time retreated, his dread crouched in the farthest recess of his mind.’
Fiction | Issue 165
The Red Coral Bracelet
Judith Hermann
‘My first and only visit to a therapist cost me my red coral bracelet and my lover.’