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 the Romanian author and his American translator Sean Cotter. Rights sold to 17 countries. Finnis and Icelandic rights are still available!The judging pannel commented:By turns wildly inventive, philosophical, and lyrical, with passages of great…

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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 important political memoir of the decade. Translations will be simultaneously published in Denmark by Gutkind, in Norway by Gyldendal Norsk, in Sweden by Albert Bonniers and in Finland by Tammi and in many,…

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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 like a list of the most groundbreaking novels I had the honor of working with these past years! Good job, guys! The fabulous list comes here: Mithu Sanyal, IDENTITTI, Hanser Verlag: Nivedita (a.k.a.…

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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 it yet please do so NOW! Corobca tells the story of a girl in a Moldavian village whose parents are forced to go abroad to earn a living. With colourful imagery and…

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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 readers alike! In Denmark Turbine from Aarhus is going to publish the Danish translation. We are so happy! Rights sold to the Netherlands (Atlas Contact), Italy (Neri Pozza), and Denmark (Turbine). Two women…

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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 on Danish and Norwegian bookshelves. Bonnier’s alpha Forlag in Denmark, the publisher of Katie Kitamura and Valérie Perrin in Denmark, just pre-empted the Danish rights. The famous Gyldendal Norsk in Norway hurried and…

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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. I am very happy to announce that MAGIC OF SILENCE will be published in Swedish by Norstedts and Danish by Gutkind. Yeah. The adventurous life of Caspar David Friedrich’s pictures of yearning –…

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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, Marion Poschmann and Christian Kracht. I am happy to say that the 2023 recipient will be Judith Hermann for her essay collection WE’D HAVE TOLD EACH OTHER EVERYTHING (S. Fischer). Finnish and Icelandic…

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