Two papers and two book reviews

2026-05-07

We are pleased to announce that the second batch of the current volume (15) of the European Journal of Life Writing is now online.

Added to the 2026 edition of our journal are the following two papers:
- "Stress, Freedom and Self-Transformation in Central European Life Writing: The Works of Yuri Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk" by Jacek Bielawa
- "'Tricked' into English: Translation and the Cultural Politics of Ruth Andreas-Friedrich’s Berlin Underground (1947) " by Christine Wiesenthal.

Also available now are two book reviews:

- Elleke Boehmer and Katherine Collins's (eds.) Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere. Texts, Spaces, Resonances, reviewed by Jobst Welge

- Patrick Hayes's The Oxford History of Life-Writing, Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945–2020, reviewed by Neil Vickers

More publications will follow throughout the coming months.

On behalf of the editorial team,

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar