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Frederick Studemann

Literary Editor

Frederick Studemann is Literary Editor of the Financial Times. He writes a regular Notebook column, mostly focused on UK and Europe.

He joined the FT in 1996 as Berlin correspondent,  having also served as assistant news editor, UK correspondent, European news editor, Analysis editor and most recently as Comment & Analysis editor . He was a founding member of FT Deutschland where he ran the features and weekend section.

Email Frederick Studemann @frederick65  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Fiction
    Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘luminous’ Kairos wins International Booker Prize

    A story of passion, art and politics in the GDR is the first German novel to win the prize

    A woman and a man stand looking at each other, smiling. Both hold a book and a trophy
  • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
    Books
    What to read in 2024

    From an AI-guided future to scandals in the art world and new fiction from Rachel Cusk and Colm Tóibín, a preview of some of the titles to look out for in the coming year

    A montage of images shows China’s Xi Jinping, a same-sex couple, soldiers in Ukraine and more
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast18 min listen
    Books books books! You asked, we answered

    Listeners’ book questions answered, with literary editor Fred Studemann and deputy books editor Laura Battle

  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    InterviewFiction
    Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch: ‘Civilisation is a thin veneer. It’s so easily lost’

    The author on how his dystopian vision of Ireland ‘Prophet Song’ holds warnings for us all

  • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
    Books
    Paul Lynch’s ‘Prophet Song’ wins Booker Prize for fiction

    Judges hail dystopian portrait of an imagined Ireland descending into totalitarianism

    Paul Lynch holding a copy of his book
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Politicians, publishers and the risks of plagiarism

    The reverberations from two copying scandals in the UK and Germany are still being felt throughout the world of books

    An illustration of people climbing ladders to reach high bookshelves
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    Nobel winner Jon Fosse: ‘Giving voice to the unsayable’
    Norwegian Jon Fosse awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

    The author was lauded for his haunting stories that ‘give voice to the unsayable’

    Author Jon Fosse in Oslo, Norway in 2021
  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    InterviewHistory books
    Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany

    Born in the GDR, the author argues in her new book for a ‘but’ in the history of the reviled former Communist state

    Katja Hoyer, pictured in front of communist-era housing blocks in Berlin
  • Monday, 9 January, 2023
    Books
    The books to read in 2023

    From historian Serhii Plokhy on the war in Ukraine to a fresh take on the Cultural Revolution and the latest by Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie, a preview of this year’s titles

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Working It16 min listen
    The best business books to read now

    FT editors on judging the FT’s best business book of the year award

  • Saturday, 26 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    Best books of 2022: FT critics’ picks

    FT writers and editors select their must-read titles

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    InterviewBook awards
    Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka receives a politically charged reception

    The Sri Lankan author talks about the business of telling stories and how listening to others can help change things

    Headshot of a man with a beard
  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s ‘million small acts of courage’

    The Belarusian exile’s visit to a memorial to Nazism’s victims was a powerful reminder of the cost of resisting oppression

    A woman is speaking on an outdoor stage. In front of her are umbrellas held by the people in the crowd listening to her
  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Books
    Is BookTok set to revolutionise the publishing industry?

    TikTok clips seem an odd fit with the literary world. But publishers mindful of their bottom line would do well not to sniff at it

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Russian politics
    McDonald’s departure from Moscow marks the end of an era

    Thirty-year-old predictions about Russia’s post-Soviet future now look like western hubris

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘We’re creating in a culture of intolerance’  

    The writer on Roe vs Wade, the role of fiction in wartime and what living in America taught her about race

  • Wednesday, 29 December, 2021
    Books
    The books to read in 2022

    From Covid’s consequences to the House of Windsor, FT books editors pick their titles to look for in the coming year

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    Lunch with the FT
    Colm Tóibín: ‘He’s watching every moment, as a writer does’

    The celebrated novelist on Ireland’s turbulent 20th century — and tackling the life of Thomas Mann

  • Saturday, 4 December, 2021
    FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024
    We need to work together ‘to hack our way out of this mess’

    Winner of the FT/McKinsey business book award aims to ‘wake people up’ to the dangers of cyber warfare

    A photo of Nicole Perlroth who says small, seemingly innocuous holes or glitches in corporate IT networks and management policies can become the gateways to much bigger disasters
  • Saturday, 27 November, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Germany’s Covid conundrums — and goodbye to a Berlin radical

    As the FT’s literary editor bids farewell to an old friend, he considers life after Merkel — and the city’s changing tech scene

  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    Booker Prize 2021
    Damon Galgut on his Booker winner The Promise: ‘Death sets things off’

    The South African’s novel impressed the judges by delving deeply into the psyche of a white clan — and a troubled nation

    The novelist Damon Galgut
  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    Book awards
    Damon Galgut’s ‘The Promise’ wins Booker Prize for fiction

    South African’s ninth novel is based around four funerals and tells the story of a family during the post-apartheid transition

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    The best of FT Weekend Spring Festival 202156 sec
    Philippe Sands: ‘Betrayal is at the heart of everything he wrote’

    Secrets, lies and spies’ legacies: an appreciation of author John Le Carré

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    Books
    Look to the future — what to read in 2021

    From post-pandemic recovery to the love life of robots, here are some of the best reads

  • Sunday, 13 December, 2020
    John le Carré
    Master of cold war spy novel John le Carré dies

    Former intelligence officer elevated hard-boiled genre to a literary form exploring ethical and political dilemmas

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