| 50 plus und endlich allein |
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Ein Ratgeber für Frauen
| Author: | Britta Zangen | |
| Rights sold: | German | |
| Genre: | Guidebook | |
| Number of pages: | 207 | |
| Edition: | 3. | |
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| ISBN: | 13:978-3-936405-27-9 | |
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| Publishing company: | Bücken & Sulzer, Overath | |
| The year of publishing: | 2005 | |
| Origin Country: | Germany | |
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In November 2005 a small German publishing house named Buecken & Sulzer published my non-fictional 50 plus and alone at last (50 plus und endlich allein). Sales figures are now nearing 4,000 copies. I did many public readings in the past years and the predominantly female audience always enjoyed them greatly. 50 plus and alone at last is precisely what the book is all about. It argues that it is a relief rather than a misfortune for a middle-aged woman to be finally on her own. Due to the fact that English literature was my profession for many years, my private contacts within the English-speaking world are quite diverse. Whenever I told people – whether in the UK, the United States, Canada, or Australia – about the book, I was invariably asked: Can I get the book in English, too? Therefore I am now looking for a publishing house that would be interested in bringing out a translation of the book. Word count: The original German text contains about 55.000 words. For a translation into English one usually estimates a third less. Translation: Either I could do the translation myself, or it could be done by a professional translator. In the first case, it would necessarily have to be corrected by a native speaker, in the second I would want to have a look at it before publication. Completion date: It would take me about two months to complete the translation. A professional translator would probably be faster. Readings: In Germany, my readings have been most successful. If you were interested, I would be happy to do some in your country. CV: Britta Zangen worked as a fashion designer, a teacher of English and as chief librarian before returning to education as a mature student. She received her PhD in English Literature from Dusseldorf University, Germany, where she then worked as a lecturer for years. She is now an independent writer. She has published the scholarly A Life of Her Own: Feminism in Vera Brittain's Theory, Fiction, and Biography and "Our Daughters Must Be Wives": Marriageable Young Women in the Novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, and edited Misogynism in Literature, Feministische Utopien [Feminist Utopias] and Frauen und Macht [Women and Power]. The range of her published essays covers Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", Shakespeare's Cleopatra, George Eliot's Armgart and the Alcharisi, Nabokov's Lolita, Florence Nightingale, and "Women as readers, writers, and judges". After her university career she published the non-fictional 50 plus und endlich allein [50 plus and alone at last] and Wenn Eltern auseinandergehen [When parents separate]. Currently, she is writing plays for the theater and the radio. |
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