About

A passionate reader and lover of language, Irma Blank was born and raised in Northern Germany. In 1955, in her early twenties, she met her Italian husband with whom she moved to Sicily. The gap between the two countries and the two languages was immense – it led her to question the adequacy or rather the inadequacy of any language. She then realized ‘that there’s no such thing as the right word’ – even in one’s mother tongue – to really convey meaning/feeling.
Blank’s entire body of work is based on language and therefore literature – whether emptying books from their meaning or creating a new …