In France, Gaël Faye made the jump from rap to fiction with the help of editor Catherine Nabokov, and his novel Small Country is now headed to the cinema.

 

The Frankfurter Buchmesse Film Awards winners were announced, and in New York, the Goethe-Institut will host a monthlong film series to honor an English translation of Uwe Johnson's work.

 

Focusing on what it describes as Trump's assaults on the news media and violations of the First Amendment, PEN America has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump.