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You are about to enter the site. Look around, lose your way, find it again - and lose it again. If you're not the playful type, go directly to The Ledge Files (HTML), where the world is more orderly.
Under the FAQ button (in Flash) are the most frequently-asked-questions to date. If you have a new question, send it to info@the-ledge.com and we'll try and help.
In the meantime, we'll keep on reading and typing and translating.
Titles in brackets [ ]'s are, as yet, unavailable in English.

conversations:
(Mad) Doctors in Fiction
Focus I
Wilhelm Schmid
The Factory
Achmat Dangor
The Operating Room
'That Time'
Stacey's Garret
Kathryn Harrison
The Getaway Room
John Haskell
The Hospital

books:
'The Balkan Trilogy'
Olivia Manning
'The Cairo Trilogy'
Naguib Mahfouz
'The Gormenghast Trilogy'
Mervyn Peake
'The Regeneration Trilogy'
Pat Barker

the ledge
info@the-ledge.com
The Ledge is an independent platform for international literature. At the heart of the site, to get you in the mood, is a series of interviews with authors, translators and literary critics. There is also a built-in, ever-expanding reading guide and a listing of literary events.
Items for the Literary News section (authors, books, events) should be sent to news@the-ledge.com.

The Ledge
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info@the-ledge.com

editor-in-chief
Stacey Knecht

website design
Maurits de Bruijn

bookwebs, reading guide
Pieter Steinz

technical expertise
Caspar van Wijk

more than paperwork
Roger Teeuwen

think tank
Teun van Wijk

thanks to
Jan van Wijk, Martin de Haan, Lara Bresser, Odile Bol, Péter Zilahy, Wendy Bloemheuvel, Carlien Blok, Remco Volkers, Francien Schuursma, Ruth Bergmans, Susan Massotty, Anne Kramer, Eva Bouman, Ad van Rijsewijk, Fran van den Bogaert, Elsbeth Louis, Vanessa van Hofwegen, Louise Koopman, Mirjam van Hengel, Joost Nijsen, Elaine Oey, Alphons Peters, Suzanne Ermers, Godelieve Linders, Joni Zwart, Roland Fagel, Anton Scheepstra, Job Lisman, May Meurs, Kees de Bakker, Alex Manassen, Sibo & Mabel, and Miss T.

special thanks to
Digitale Pioniers
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

especially special thanks to
M&D

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literary news:
The Literary Colloquium Berlin
www.lcb.de
Literature has many places, for you can read anywhere as long as you have light and quiet. That’s not how it is for writing, and even listening requires its own places. If you are looking for one such place, you should travel to the southern part of Berlin and turn, right across from the Wannsee train station, into the street called 'Am Sandwerder'. After less than fifty paces, you will stand in front of the wrought-iron gate with the number 5. You will see a spacious driveway, several parking spots, smaller buildings to the left and to the right, and straight ahead — between trees, built with red brick, and sporting a turret — one of the lavish mansions that have adorned the city’s better, wealthier neighborhoods since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Residing here, the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB), however, represents a wealth of a special kind. (read on...)

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