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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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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