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DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD for Mircea Cărtărescu!
The world's largest prize for a single novel published in English is worth 100.000 Euro and was given today in Dublin to ...
read on Publication of Angela Merkel’s Memoirs announced!
On November 11, Angela Merkel’s memoirs will be published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Germany! This is going to be the most ...
read on 5 NOMINEES FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2024
5 out of 31 nominees for the Dublin Literary Award 2024 are represented by schoene agentur, woop woop, and the nominees read ...
read on English translation available: Liliana Corobca’s KINDERLAND
It is now or never: Steven Stories Press just published their translation of Moldovan Liliana Corobca's novel KINDERLAND and if you haven't ...
read on Sold to Denmark: MARSHLANDS by Jarka Kubsova
A highlight in upmarket fiction and a bestselling novel here in Germany: MARSHLANDS by Jarka Kubsova receives wonderful praise from critics and ...
read on PRE-EMPTED in Norway, PRE-EMPTED in Denmark: GITTERSEE by Charlotte Gneuß
Nominated for the German Book Award 2023, among the winners of the prestigious Jürgen Ponto Prize for Best Debut Novel, and soon ...
read on SHORTLISTED for the Austrian Book Award 2023: Wolf Haas and PROPERTY
Wolf Haas just made the shortlist for the Austrian Book Award 2023 and we are absolutely thrilled! In the words of the ...
read on Florian Illies‘ THE MAGIC OF SILENCE sold to Sweden and Denmark
He did it again: Florian Illies' breaks with genre rules and startles his readers into feverish curiosity into a whole new topic. ...
read on Judith Hermann nominated for Swedish Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns International Literatery Award 2023
Alongside such fabulous writers such as Andrea Abreu and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Judith Hermann's AT HOME (Hemma, Weyler Förlag, 2023) is nominated ...
read on Wilhelm Raabe Award 2023 for Judith Hermann!
It counts among the most notable literary awards in Germany: The Wilhelm Raabe Award. Former recipients include Judith Schalansky, Clemens J. Setz, ...
read on SHORTLISTED for the German Book Award 2023: MAMAN by Sylvie Schenk
We are absolutely thrilled that Sylvie Schenk's MAMAN (Hanser) made it onto the shortlist for the German Book Award 2023! Sylvie Schenk’s ...
read on DEAR CHILD out on Netflix
Romy Hausmann's bestselling thriller debut DEAR CHILD blows its Netflix audience away: the best start of a German series on the streaming ...
read on Nominated for the Austrian Book Award 2023: LONGLIST
On October 10 we will know the shortlist, on November 6 the winner. For now I am feeling happy and grateful that ...
read on Nominated for the German Book Award 2023: LONGLIST
This year's longlist brings together a lot of my personal highlights and three books which I have the honor of representing abroad: ...
read on GITTERSEE by Charlotte Gneuß wins Jürgen Ponto Debut Prize 2023
This book got me so excited from page one and I could not put it down. I thought I had read everything ...
read on MARZAHN, MON AMOUR: sold to Norway, out in Sweden!
Rights to Katja Oskamp's huge bestselling MARZAHN, MON AMOUR, winner of the Dublin Literary Award 2023, just sold to Forlaget Press in ...
read on Sold to Norway, Denmark and Sweden: Peter Flamm’s ME?
A gem of a book from 1926, rediscovered in the archives of S. Fischer, caused a sensation this spring and is now ...
read on The 2nd volume of Julia Schoch’s trilogy BIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN sold to Denmark
Julia Schoch’s 2nd volume to her trilogy BIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN has spent the last months at the top of the German ...
read on The 3rd volume of Monika Helfer’s bestselling trilogy, LIONHEART, sold to Denmark and Sweden
Monika Helfer turns her life experiences into literature and her trilogy has seen a breath-taking success in Germany as well as abroad. ...
read on bestseller alert: Caroline Wahl and 22 LENGTHS
Caroline Wahl’s debut novel 22 LENGTHS is #8 on the SPIEGEL bestseller list with almost 40.000 copies sold since April! a top ...
read on #1 Best Non Fiction Book this July August – FREEDOM TO STAY by Eva von Redecker
Eva von Redecker – „ one of the most interesting thinkers of her generation” (Der Spiegel) – just published her new essay ...
read on HOW TO EAT A MAMOTH? sold to Norway, Korea and the US
The fabulous cultural history "How to Eat a Mammoth? The History of Humanity in 50 Dishes" by Uta Seeburg is making its ...
read on Sold to Denmark: SCHRÖDINGER’S GRRRL by Marlen Hobrack
Mara Wolf, the heroine in Marlen Hobrack's novel SCHRÖDINGER'S GRRRL, will come to Denmark: fasten your seatbelts: Forlaget Falco just bought the ...
read on Robert Habeck and Andrea Paluch’s mystery crime in Danish: Superlux acquires rights to THE DEATH OF HAUKE HAIN
A family that falls victim to a nighttime storm surge on the North Sea coast. A survivor who wants to find out ...
read on Sold to Finland: The Chinese Phantom. The World’s Most Dangerous Arms Dealer or: The Powerlessness of the West
The new book from the Pulitzer Prize winning journalists who uncovered the Panama Papers: "The Chinese Phantom. The World's Most Dangerous Arms ...
read on MARZAHN, MON AMOUR wins Dublin Literary Award 2023
Katja Oskamp's fabulous auto-fictional book MARZAHN, MON AMOUR just won the Dublin Literary Award 2023. In it a failed writer seeks a ...
read on L.A. Times Book Prize 2023 for Mircea Cărtărescu
Mircea Cărtărescu received this year's L.A.Times Fiction Prize for his monumental novel SOLENOID (Zsolnay 2019) which was published by Deepl Vellum. Finnish ...
read on Dinçer Güçyeter wins Prize of Leipzig Book Fair 2023!
Dinçer Güçyeter works part-time as a forklift truck driver, has published two volumes of poetry, won the 2022 Peter Huchel Prize and ...
read on Sold to Denmark: MAN(N) of the Sea by Volker Weidermann
Every book by the one and only Volker Weidermann makes my heart go boom and I am happy that his Danish fans ...
read on Sold to Sweden, Norway and Denmark: BLOODBOOK by Kim de l’Horizon
My complete admiration to the group of translators out there for the work ahead #namethetranslator !!! In fall 2022, BLUTBUCH by Kim ...
read on Sold to Sweden: Arno Geiger’s HAPPY SECRET
Ten weeks at the top of the bestseller list. Tens of thousands of copies sold. Swedish rights just licensed to the wonderful ...
read on nominated for the International Booker Prize 2023 – Clemens Meyer and WHILE WE WERE DREAMING
Clemens Meyer’s WHILE WE WERE DREAMING in English translation at Fitzcarraldo Editions was just nominated for the International Booker Prize 2023! https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/while-we-were-dreaming ...
read on SWISS GRAND PRIX FOR LITERATURE 2023 GOES TO LETA SEMADENI
Leta Semadeni receives the 2023 Swiss Grand Prix for Literature! In the words of the jury: »Leta Semadeni's work is one of ...
read on Raving reviews for Mithu Sanyal’s IDENTITTI in Denmark!
Mithu Sanyal's novel IDENTITTI received enormous feedback here in Germany, made the shortlist to the German Book Award in 2021 and will ...
read on Raving Press for Judith Hermann in Sweden!
Judith Hermann's novel HOME received enormously good press in Norway and Denmark after it came out. Now it was published last week ...
read on #1 on the German bestseller list: LOVE ON BAD DAYS by Ewald Arenz
Ewald Arenz’ new novel LOVE ON BAD DAYS (Dumont) came out a week ago, started #8 on the bestseller list and moved ...
read on Raving English press: GRIME. A NOVEL by Sibylle Berg
With English publication of Sibylle Berg's smash hit GRM (Grime in the US) on Dec 27, the Washington Post published a fantastic ...
read on Sold to Denmark and Norway: THE BECOMING OF KILLERS
Thriller star Romy Hausmann re-invents herself with this true crime project and takes her fans to a whole new level of talking/thinking/living ...
read on Sold to Denmark: AT SEA by Theresia Enzensberger
The fabulous Danish press Forlaget etcetera has just acquired rights to Theresia Enzensberger's second novel AT SEA which was nominated for the ...
read on Austrian Book Award for Verena Rossbacher and MON CHÉRIE
The Austrian Book Award 2022 goes to Verena Rossbacher and her novel MON CHÉRIE OR OUR BATTERED SOULS (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) - ...
read on Swiss Book Award 2022 for Kim de l’Horizon and BLOODBOOK
What a run! After receiving the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize as well as the German Book Award 2022, Kim de l'Horizon ...
read on Reading Recommendation: THE GOLD COAST. AN ODYSSEY by Isabel Fargo Cole
Isabel Fargo Cole's THE GOLD COAST was published two weeks ago and sold out on the spot. Mixing nature writing, narrative non-fiction ...
read on Just published in Swedish: Uwe Timm’s ICARIA
I read the text in 2017 and there are scenes that have stayed with me ever since. With the words of El ...
read on Sold to Sweden, Finland and Denmark: THE END OF CAPITALISM by Ulrike Herrmann
"THE END OF CAPITALISM. Why Growth and Climate Protection Are Incompatible – and How We Will Live in the Future" (Kiepenheuer & ...
read on just published in Swedish: Horst Krüger’s THE BROKEN HOUSE
Weyler Förlag in Sweden just published Horst Krüger's THE BROKEN HOUSE in translation by Anne-Marie Odstedt! THE BROKEN HOUSE is a major ...
read on German Book Award for BLUTBUCH by Kim de l’Horizon
Kim de l'Horizon’s novel BLUTBUCH (Dumont July 2022) just won the German Book Award and what a speech! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzFe_npPu8I Winner of the ...
read on sold to Denmark and Sweden: Mircea Cărtărescu’s MELANCOLIA
The German newspaper Die Welt wrote that MELANCOLIA was "Like Kafka on LSD: Mircea Cărtărescu's fantastic stories tell of the hell of ...
read on sold to Denmark: Daniela Dröscher’s LIES ABOUT MY MOTHER
The first license sale for this shortlist candidate is in and it comes from the wonderful small press Straarup & Co. who ...
read on Sold to Sweden and Denmark: Werner Herzog’s THE TWILIGHT WORLD
Since the English edition was published in summer by Penguin, this slim novel has been all over the place in the US. ...
read on highlight 2022 : Fatma Aydemir’s epic family novel JINNS
Politikens Forlag in Denmark acquired the Danish rights to Fatma Aydemir's new novel JINNS (Hanser 2022) before its publication in Germany, now ...
read on Shortlist German Book Award 2022
If the winner of the German Book Award 2022 is the 3rd time in a row a schøne book there will be ...
read on Longlisted for the German Book Award 2022
The candidates for the German Book Award 2022 have been announced and these are the hotties you need to have read this ...
read on Debutant Prize for Kim de l’Horizon and BLOODBOOK
Kim de l’Horizon and his debut BLOODBOOK have been awarded with the Jürgen Ponto Prize 2022 for Young Authors. The Jürgen Ponto ...
read on Emine Sevgi Özdamar wins Georg Büchner Prize 2022
Emine Sevgi Özdamar receives the Georg Büchner Prize 2022. The award is given to writers "who write in the German language, who ...
read on Raving reviews for SOLENOID in Denmark!
The most beautiful book 2022 has just been published by Forlaget Palomar & Skjødt in Denmark, the Danish translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's ...
read on Joseph Roth: TRAVELS TO UKRAINE AND RUSSIA (C.H.Beck)
Roth was a successful journalist in the 1920s. On behalf of the "Frankfurter Zeitung," he traveled to the young Soviet Union in ...
read on Sold to Sweden: Stories of a Chiropodist by Katja Oskamp
One can only absolutely adore this book! Now, Rámus Förlag in Sweden acquired rights to Katja Oskamp’s MARZAHN, MON AMOUR. STORIES OF ...
read on Sold to Sweden: Clemens Meyer’s DARK SATELLITES
ellerströms Förlag will be publishing Clemens Meyer's DARK SATELLITES (S. Fischer 2017) which - upon publication - received amazing press not only ...
read on Thomas Mann’s DER ERWÄHLTE newly translated in Denmark!
A new translation in over 60 years of Thomas Mann's DER ERWÄHLTE was just published in Denmark at Gyldendal to raving press! ...
read on Sold to Denmark: Abbas Khider’s THE MEMORY FORGER
The journey abroad continues: The fabulous Straarup & Co. press in Denmark acquired the rights to Abbas Khider's latest novel, THE MEMORY ...
read on Out in Norway: Abbas Khider’s THE PALACE OF THE WRETCHED
THE PALACE OF THE WRETCHED (Hanser Verlag 2020) is the story of a boy from the slums of Baghdad – up to ...
read on Sold to Norway: Yevgenia Beloruset’s LUCKY BREAKS
Yevgenia Belorusets' stories LUCKY BREAKS have been published in English and already reviewed by The Economist, The Financial Times and The Times Literary Supplement.The ...
read on Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 2022 goes to Karl-Markus Gauß
After Masha Gessen, Åsne Seierstad and Mathias Énard among many others, Karl-Markus Gauß received the 2022 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding ...
read on Sold to Finland!
Adina's story - the winner novel of the German Book Award 2021 by Antje Rávik Strubel - will be out in Finnish: ...
read on Published in Sweden: Gertrude Pressburger’s Holocaust memoir
No words to describe how happy we are to see this heart-breaking memoir out in Swedish translation at Historiska Media! LIVED, LIVED ...
read on Svenska Dagbladet on Hanna Engelmeier’s essay COMFORT
Michael Ekman has reviewed Hanna Engelmeier's COMFORT. FOUR EXERCISES (Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2021) for Svenska Dagbladet. »A child can be comforted ...
read on THE BOOK OF SLIME out in English translation!
Granta Books just published Susanne Wedlich's BOOK OF SLIME! It was a BBC Book of the Week (link below), the Daily Telegraph ...
read on Verena Güntner’s POWER out in Denmark!
Verena Güntner’s POWER is a gripping, thought-provoking novel that made it not only all the way onto the shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair ...
read on Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 COILS OF FEAR out in Denmark
We are happy about the warm welcome for Olivia Wenzel's debut novel 1000 COILS OF FEAR (S. Fischer) in Denmark at Forlag ...
read on Raving Press for Judith Hermann’s HOME in Denmark and Norway!
We are celebrating one raving review after the other for Judith Hermann's new novel HOME - one of the absolute highlights on ...
read on Sold to Sweden: Wilhelm Genazino!
Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germany’s highest literary honor, will be finally available in Swedish translation! Bokförlaget Augusti anno 2004 ...
read on Sold to Finland: DARKENBLOOM by Eva Menasse
Eva Menasse's epic novel DARKENBLOOM will be published in Finnish translation by Siltala and we could not be more happy! Rights sold ...
read on Sold to Sweden: Leif Randt’s ALLEGRO PASTELL
I can't wait to share the news that Forum in Sweden just acquired rights to Leif Randt's phenomenal ALLEGRO PASTELL! Finnish and ...
read on Available in English: EXTREME NORTH by Bernd Brunner
W.W. Norton will be publishing Bernd Brunner's EXTREME NORTH. A CULTURAL HISTORY (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) in February 2022! "The North, Brunner argues, ...
read on Adapted for Screen: Daniel Glattauer’s LOVE VIRTUALLY
Daniel Glattauer’s international hit novel, LOVE VIRTUALLY (“Gut gegen Nordwind” Deuticke 2006) has been adapted for the screen and is now available ...
read on Sold to Denmark and Norway: Leif Randt’s ALLEGRO PASTEL
ALLEGRO PASTELL by Leif Randt is making its way up North: We just sold rights to Straarup & Co. in Denmark. ALLEGRO ...
read on Independent Bookseller’s Favourite Novel 2021: Ewald Arenz and GRAND SUMMER (Dumont)
Ewald Arenz’ bestselling novel DER GROSSE SOMMER/ THE GRAND SUMMER has just been announced Independent Bookseller’s Favourite Novel 2021 at the Frankfurt ...
read on German Book Award 2021 goes to Antje Rávik Strubel’s BLUE WOMAN
Antje Rávik Strubel's novel BLUE WOMAN (S. Fischer Verlag) is the winner of the 2021 German Book Award! Strubel is the translator ...
read on Sold to Denmark: IDENTITTI
We are absolutely thrilled to share the news that rights to Mithu M. Sanyal's IDENTITTI are sold to Straarup & Co. in ...
read on Shortlisted for the German Book Award 2021
The six shortlist candidates have just been announced and schøne agentur represents translation rigths for four of them! Please do not hesitate ...
read on Valley of Glories: The new novel by winner of the German Book Award 2020, Anne Weber
Last year Anne Weber won the German Book Award with ANNETTE, UNE ÉPOPÉE / ANNETTE, EIN HELDINNENEPOS / EPIC ANNETTE (Matthes & ...
read on Nominated for German and Austrian Book Award 2021
After her sensational success with DIE BAGAGE, you will find Monika Helfer's latest novel DADDY among the candidates for both the German ...
read on Sold to Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland: LOVE IN A TIME OF HATE by Florian Illies
Right before the start of Frankfurt Book Fair 2021 we are super thrilled to share the news that Finnish and Danish rights ...
read on Sold to Norway: DARKENBLOOM by Eva Menasse!
God forbid you could read only one book this fall but if that was the case, Eva Menasse's DARKENBLOOM should be the ...
read on A Dagens Nyheter Top Ten Title: FROM THE SUGAR FACTOR by Dorothee Elmiger
Dorothee Elmiger’s FROM THE SUGAR FACTORY (Hanser 2020) has been a Dagens Nyheter Top Ten title for weeks now. Here is a ...
read on World English Right Sold: Nino Haratischvili’s JUJA
Let us share the awesome news right away: Scribe just acquired rights to Nino Haratischvili's fiction debut JUJA, published by Verbrecher Verlag ...
read on Just out in Germany: Ellinor Skagegård’s FOR YOU, MUSIC MAY ONLY BE AN ORNAMENT
Two years ago while travelling to Stockholm to visit publishers and editors, I stumbled over this gem of a book: Ellinor Skagegård's ...
read on World English rights sold!
Restless Books acquired World English rights to Max Czollek's DESINTEGRATE YOURSELVES! (Hanser Verlag) and we could not be happier! Max Czollek is ...
read on Sold to Denmark, Norway and Sweden!
Judith Hermann's upcoming novel is nominated for the Prize of Leipzig Book Fair 2021! We are also delighted that DAHEIM (S. Fischer) ...
read on Anke Stelling’s HIGHER GROUND sold to Denmark
Anke Stelling’s novel, HIGHER GROUND (Schäfchen im Trockenen, Verbrecher Verlag), won her the 2019 Prize of Leipzig Book Fair, catapulting the author ...
read on THE FOREST…AND I sold to Norway!
We are absolutely this thrilled what huge steps this slim narrative self-help title is taking in Germany AND NOW abroad, too! We ...
read on Mark Benecke’s ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF ANIMALS sold to Norway!
Mark Benecke studied biology, zoology, and psychology and wrote his doctoral thesis on genetic fingerprinting. An internationally sought-after criminal biologist, he trained ...
read on The 5th Babylon Berlin Case is Out in Denmark!
The Danish edition at Lindhardt & Ringhof comes with a goosebump cover and is receving five star reviews in Politiken and Jyllands-Posten ...
read on Raving Press for DEAR CHILD in Norway!
The German publication was met with raving press, the English edition received overwhelming feedback from critics and readers, now Romy Hausmann's thriller ...
read on Sold to Sweden: Byung-Chul Han’s PAIN TODAY: THE PALLIATIVE SOCIETY
Exactly 10 years after his world bestseller The Burn-out Society translated into over 30 languages, Han provides us with a new analysis ...
read on FUNERAL FOR A DOG adapted for screen
Thomas Pletzinger’s gem of a novel FUNERAL FOR A DOG (Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2011) was a huge success upon publication and sold ...
read on Sold to Denmark!
We are absolutely thrilled, head-over-heels, over the top to announce that Danish rights to Anne Weber's ANNETTE, UNE ÉPOPÉE / ANNETTE, EIN ...
read on »an extremely gripping, profound novel about war, about nature and human destiny« – Norbert Scheuer’s WINTER BEES is out in Denmark!
Right after publication in Danish translation, WINTER BEES (C.H.Beck) by Norbert Scheuer already received a raving review in Information! January 1944: Bee-keeper ...
read on Raving Reviews in US/UKA, Now Sold to Denmark!
The English edition of Jonas Lüscher's KRAFT, just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in New York, receives raving press abroad and ...
read on Raving Press for Zora del Buono’s THE MARSHALESS
From her grandmother, Zora del Buono inherited not only her first name, but also a family catastrophe – Zora senior was caught ...
read on German Book Award 2020 for Anne Weber’s ANNETTE, UNE ÉPOPÉE / ANNETTE, EIN HELDINNENEPOS / EPIC ANNETTE
The winner of the German Book Award 2020, French-German Anne Weber’s ANNETTE, UNE ÉPOPÉE / ANNETTE, EIN HELDINNENEPOS / EPIC ANNETTE knocks ...
read on Monika Helfer, DIE BAGAGE: on the shortlist for the Austrian Book Award 2020, sold to Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland!
To see this small beauty of a novel last on the German bestseller for weeks on end is fantastic - don't miss ...
read on Finalist for National Book Awards 2020: Anja Kampmann’s HIGH AS THE WATERS RISE (Hanser/Catapult)
Anja Kampmann is among the finalists for the National Book Awards 2020 !!! Rigths sold to France (Gallimard), Italy (Keller) and UK/USA ...
read on Sold to UK, US, Norway and Denmark!
The book was nominated for the German Book Award 2020, shortlisted for the aspekte Literature Prize for Best Debut Novel 2020 and ...
read on German Book Award 2020 – Shortlist
We are delighted to share the great news with you that Dorothee Elmiger, Thomas Hettche and Anne Weber are shortlisted for this ...
read on Austrian Book Award 2020 – Longlist
Monika Helfer, Ilija Trojanow and Mercedes Spannagel made it onto the longlist for the Austrian Book Award 2020! The shortlist will be ...
read on Sold to Sweden!
Let us spread the great news that Dorothee Elmiger's latest book, OUT OF THE SUGAR FACTORY (Hanser 2020), has found a new ...
read on German Book Award 2020 – Longlist
The longlist of the German Book Award 2020 was just announced and you will find absolute gems on this year's list. Here ...
read on Sold to Norway: Birgit Bulla’s Book on the Bladder
We are super thrilled about the international start of Birgit Bulla's HOME AND DRY? Everything You Need to Know About Your Bladder, ...
read on Irina Liebmann receives the Uwe Johnson Prize 2020
Irina Liebmann receives the Uwe Johnson Prize for her book DIE GROSSE HAMBURGER STRASSE (Schöffling & Co.)! Earlier recipients include Uwe Tellkamp, ...
read on Happy Birthday, schøne agentur!
Three years ago I sat at a kitchen table in a one-room apartment in Leipzig and started the computer, for the first ...
read on Sold to Norway: Leif Randt’s ALLEGRO PASTEL
Leif Randt's ALLEGRO PASTEL (Kiepenheuer & Witsch spring 2020) was published to a symphony of praising reviews here in Germany. Now, Aschehoug ...
read on A New „Sulzer“ out in Finland
His Finnish fans have found their summer read already: Lurra Editions just published Alain Claude Sulzer's latest novel, UNTENABLE CIRCUMSTANCES (Galiani Berlin), ...
read on Wonderful Press for Weidermann’s DREAMERS in Denmark and Sweden!
With OSTENDE, 1936. SUMMER BEFORE DARKNESS FELL, Volker Weidermann was welcomed warmly by his Danish and Swedish audience. Now, Turbine in Denmark ...
read on Finally: Robert Seethaler in Finnish!
We are super thrilled that Robert Seethaler's A WHOLE LIFE is available in Finnish translation. This 120-page gem of a novel has ...
read on Sold to Norway, Sweden and NEW: Finland!
After the phenomenal success of Romy's debut "Dear Child" (sold to 23 languages by now!), her new psychothriller MARTA, ASLEEP enters the ...
read on Raving Press for Christoph Ransmayr in Norwegian Translation!
La Repubblica called him "the greatest contemporary writer in the German language." His works have been published into more than 30 languages. ...
read on Sold to Finland!
Fifteen years after the international success of NIGHTTRAIN TO LISBON, comes Pascal Mercier's new novel - THE WEIGHT OF WORDS (Hanser). Eight ...
read on Sold to Finland!
First it landed on the SPIEGEL bestseller list and is now on its way to Finland where Johnny Kniga acquired Finnish rights ...
read on Sold to Norway!
Abbas Khider’s THE PALACE OF THE MISERABLE is the 2020 novel that will get under your skin, that will make you laugh ...
read on Raving press for THE GRAVE DIGGERS in Denmark and Sweden!
Rüdiger Barth and Hauke Friederichs' THE GRAVE DIGGERS (S. Fischer 2017) was just published by Gyldendal in Denmark and Weyler in Sweden ...
read on Art History: Re-written
Julia Voss encountered Hilma af Klint’s work ten years ago in Stockholm. Since then, she has learned Swedish and visited many archives ...
read on Prize of Leipzig Book Fair 2020 goes to Lutz Seiler and Bettina Hitzer
The jury of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2020 has awarded Lutz Seiler and his latest novel STERN 111 (Suhrkamp), a novel ...
read on 2019 Bestseller in Norway: Franzobel’s THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
Franzobel's THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (Zsolnay, 2017) made it to the top-bestselling titles in translated fiction in Norway last year and ...
read on Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2020 : here are the nominees
From 400 submitted titles the jury of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2020 just announced the 15 nominees. Among them you will ...
read on Raving Press for Eva Menasse in Denmark !
For years, Eva Menasse gathered information from the animal world that, like reverse fables, seemed to her to reveal something about human ...
read on Esther Kinsky at Litfest Bergen 6-9 February 2020
Esther Kinsky is reading at the Literature Festival in Bergen on February 8! https://www.littfestbergen.no/en/litfest-2020/programme-sessions/river-and-life/ Kinsky won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2018 ...
read on raving English press for modern classic writer Gabriele Tergit
In six frenzied weeks, Gabriele Tergit wrote her first novel, which made her instantly famous upon its publication in 1931. KÄSEBIER TAKES ...
read on Published in Sweden and Denmark: the revival of Elias Canetti
ELIAS CANETTI's works are finally available again in Danish translation by Karsten Sand Iversen, republished by Lindhardt & Ringhof's imprint Akademisk Forlag. ...
read on Swiss Book Award 2019 and Swiss Grand Prix Literature 2020 for Sibylle Berg and GRM. BRAINFUCK !
She is an absolute inspiration, counts among the most important contemporary German writers, and she is one of the hippest authors. Something ...
read on Sold to Denmark!
You might have seen Norbert Scheuer's WINTER BEES (C.H.Beck 2019) on the shortlist to the German Book Award. If You haven't read ...
read on Austrian Book Award 2019 for Norbert Gstrein and Angela Lehner
Norbert Gstrein is a master when it comes to interweaving narratives into an ambigious, atmospheric tale. He receives this year's Austrian Book ...
read on KINTSUGI Wins Aspekte Preis 2019 !
Miku Sophie Kühmel has won this year's ZDF aspekte Prize for Best Literary Debut of the Year. Her novel KINTSUGI (S. Fischer) ...
read on The German Authors to Attend Göteborg Book Fair Are:
From September 26 - 29, You can meet the following authors at Göteborg Book Fair on GENDER ROLES IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE LITERATURE, Andrea ...
read on Raving Press in Sweden for Mircea Cărtărescu !
While the Norwegian translation (Solum Bokvennen) is in preparation, we are celebrating the raving feedback by critics that Mircea Cărtărescu's SOLENOID (Zsolnay ...
read on Sold to Sweden !
I am happy to share the news that Bonniers in Sweden pre-empted the rights to this ground-breaking biography on Swedish painter HILMA ...
read on Sold to Sweden, Denmark and Finland !
The Swedish translation of Hauke Friederichs and Rüdiger Barth's historical count-down of the last ten weeks of the Weimar Republic - THE ...
read on Shortlisted: The 6 German Novels That Made It!
This morning the shortlist to the German Book Award 2019 was announced and these are the six novels that made it: Jackie ...
read on Austrian Book Prize 2019: Here Are the Nominees !
The short list for Best Debut Novel 2019 was just announced and You will find both, Marco Dinic' THE GOOD DAYS (Zsolnay, ...
read on Mariana Leky: The Bestseller Author Is Out In Denmark and Sweden!
Mariana Leky's WHAT WE CAN SEE FROM HERE (Dumont, 2017) has been an absolute phenomenon in Germany. Now it is finally out ...
read on Longlist : The 20 Novels Nominated for the German Book Award 2019
The longlist for the German Book Award 2019 has just been announced. Here are the twenty nominees: Jackie Thomae, "Brüder" (Hanser Berlin, ...
read on Danish Praise for Robert Seethaler’s THE FIELD !
If the dead could speak, what would they say? Would they tell a story, recall the memory of a moment, a certain ...
read on Ingrid Nyström & Stina Forss Series Is Out in Sweden
The authors Kerstin Danielsson and Roman Voosen are a German-Swedish couple living in Växjö, Sweden. Their series on a police force in Växjö ...
read on Lukas Bärfuss Wins Georg Büchner Prize 2019
The Georg Büchner Prize is the most important award for literary works written in German. This year's Büchner Prize will be awarded ...
read on Juli Zeh Wins Heinrich Böll Prize 2019
Every two years the City of Cologne awards a writer for his or her extraordinary talent. This year the prize will go ...
read on Finally: Babylon Berlin arrives on Swedish TV
The series directed by Tom Tykwer (director of “Cloud Atlas” and “The International”) has been and will be broadcasted in all Scandinavian ...
read on Sold to Sweden ! Top of the bestseller list ! Movie rights optioned !
Romy Hausmann’s debut thriller LIEBES KIND was published 14 weeks ago and is still at the top of the Spiegel bestseller here in ...
read on Ulrich Woelk Wins Alfred Döblin Prize 2019
Establish by author Günther Grass in 1979, the Alfred Döblin Prize counts Natascha Wodin (2015) and María Cecilia Barbetta (2017) among its ...
read on Tysk-Norsk Litteraturfestival in Oslo Draws 5.000 Visitors!
From April 26 to April 28, the House of Literature in Oslo hosted the German Norwegian Literature Festival "På vei til Frankfurt ...
read on Three German Bestseller Authors to Attend Horsens Crime Festival 2019
Shortly before Easter, this Year's Crime Festival in Horsens will open its doors to readers and writers - and not any doors ...
read on Raving Press in Norway for Franzobel’s THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
Published by Cappelen Damm in Norwegian translation at the beginning of this Year, the novel THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (Zsolnay 2017) ...
read on Anke Stelling Wins Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2019
In her books, Anke Stelling does an incredible job exploring the middle class psyche - the quality of her prose and her ...
read on Sold to Denmark, Sweden and Norway !
Already published in Denmark and Sweden with great praise by the critics, rights to Volker Weidermann's OSTENDE. 1936 – SUMMER OF FRIENDSHIP (Kiepenheuer ...
read on Bestseller Series sold to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland !
The bestselling series by Volker Kutscher arrives in Scandinavia. With the adaptation of the novels to screen by Tom Tykwer (director of ...
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