Literature is increasingly losing space. In many newspapers, literary sections are shrinking, being merged, or disappearing altogether. Attention focuses on a small number of well-known names, while so-called peripheral areas of literature – translations, independent publishers, voices from the Global South, essays, poetry, debut works – are increasingly overlooked.

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