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Mara Wolf, the heroine in Marlen Hobrack’s novel SCHRÖDINGER’S GRRRL, will come to Denmark: fasten your seatbelts: Forlaget Falco just bought the Danish rights. »The problem lies inside, just behind the door. As soon as you open it, unattractive things come out. The mailbox is a black box. Like Schrödinger’s poison box, the cat sits…

A family that falls victim to a nighttime storm surge on the North Sea coast. A survivor who wants to find out the real reason her parents had to die. And a village that doesn’t want to talk about it… The dike breaks during a once-in-a-century storm tide on the Frisian North Sea coast. The…

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 rights are still available! Over these past years, the novel received amazing feedback from critics in Sweden, Denmark and will soon be out in Norway. »Romanian Mircea Cartarescu’s novel has the same depth…

This German fairy tale goes way beyond Germany: Dinçer Güçyeter tells the untold story of women who have been overlooked, unheard, un-addressed for the longest time now. I am super happy to say that Güçyeter’s OUR GERMAN FAIRY TALE. A NOVEL (mikrotext) is the winner of this years Prize of Leipzig Book Fair! This is…

My complete admiration to the group of translators out there for the work ahead #namethetranslator !!! In fall 2022, BLUTBUCH by Kim de l’Horizon won the German Book Award, the Swiss Book Award and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize. I am absolutely thrilled to announce that Brombergs in Sweden acquired rights! rights sold to:…

Ten weeks at the top of the bestseller list. Tens of thousands of copies sold. Swedish rights just licensed to the wonderful Lindelöws in Sweden – Arno Geiger’s THE HAPPY SECRET published by Hanser Verlag in January will make news this spring. Stay tuned! Early one morning, a young man sets off on his bike…

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 Startlingly raw and deeply moving, this extraordinary debut novel from one of Germany’s most ambitious writers is full of passion, hope and despair They are dreaming of their football team’s promotion, of true…

Leta Semadeni receives the 2023 Swiss Grand Prix for Literature! In the words of the jury: »Leta Semadeni’s work is one of rugged beauty that we rub up against just as the protagonists of her novels rub up against the often painful world« Last year, Atlantis Verlag in Switzerland published her beauty of a literary…

Mithu Sanyal’s novel IDENTITTI received enormous feedback here in Germany, made the shortlist to the German Book Award in 2021 and will be translated into 7 languages. Last year the English edition was published and received the same echo from critics. Now IDENTITTI came out in Denmark and I am not sure I ever read…