Beiträge von Anna

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…

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…

This book got me so excited from page one and I could not put it down. I thought I had read everything and every way there was to write about how it was to grow up in the GDR. But Charlotte Gneuß finds a whole new voice! Once a year, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation awards…

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…

Julia Schoch’s 2nd volume to her trilogy BIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN has spent the last months at the top of the German bestseller list. Let me tell you: This is it, this is her break-through. If you haven’t read THE INCIDENT or THE COUPLE OF THE CENTURY, yet, do it now. International rights sold to…

Monika Helfer turns her life experiences into literature and her trilogy has seen a breath-taking success in Germany as well as abroad. After DIE BAGAGE (2020) and VATI (2021): LIONHEART (2022) is Helfer’s latest novel about a family from the Austrian Vorarlberg and an intimate portrait, a story about care, guilt and family ties. Now…