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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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 book Maman paints a loving portrait of her own mother, which develops into a painful reckoning. Schenk’s mother was born in Lyon in 1916, and her grandmother died during her mother’s birth. Allegedly…

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DEAR CHILD out on Netflix

Romy Hausmann’s bestselling thriller debut DEAR CHILD blows its Netflix audience away: A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by the father: Meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulously observed. Oxygen comes from a “circulation machine”, food is provided by the…

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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 these two candidates made it: PROPERTY by Wolf Haas, a completely new reading experience from one of the best-known authors made in Austria, and WHAT WE LIVE ON by Birgit Birnbacher, the second…

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Sold to Denmark: GITTERSEE by Charlotte Gneuß

You will find it on the longlist to the German Book Award, among the winners of the prestigious Jürgen Ponto Prize for Best Debut Novel, and soon on Danish bookshelves. Bonnier’s alpha Forlag in Denmark, the publisher of Katie Kitamura and Valérie Perrin in Denmark, just pre-empted the Danish rights. The year is 1976 in…

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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: The novel already won an important newcomer award, the Jürgen Ponto Prize 2023, and rights were pre-empted in Denmark (alpha). The year is 1976 in the GDR. Karin, 16, lives in Dresden’s working-class…

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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 Norway! Katja Oskamp is in her mid-forties when her life grows dull. Her child has left home, her husband is ill, and her writing, which was her all up till then, is only…

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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 sold to 9 territories including Norway, Denmark and Sweden! Who am I if my experiences have made me someone else? Hans, an esteemed surgeon, returns home from the battlefields of the First World…

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