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Hej hej – Goodbye
You can still get in touch with me but schøne agentur seized to actively sell rights and licenses. You can catch me at my new position at Nordin Ringhof Agency: anna.richter@nordinringhof.dk. Happy to stay in touch and to hear from you! Anna Richter Foreign Rights Nordin Ringhof Agency ApS Store Kannikestræde 18, 2. tv. 1169…
WeiterlesenDUBLIN 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…
Weiterlesen5 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.…
WeiterlesenEnglish 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…
WeiterlesenSold 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…
WeiterlesenPRE-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…
WeiterlesenSHORTLISTED for the Austrian Book Award 2023: Wolf Haas and PROPERTY
Wolf Haas just made the shortlist for the Austrian Book Award 2023 and we are absolutely thrilled! In the words of the jury: „Wolf Haas has the ability to write about life and death, and he does so in a manner rarely seen in contemporary autofiction literature. Love and anarchy, as always with this author,…
WeiterlesenJudith Hermann nominated for Swedish Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns International Literatery Award 2023
Alongside such fabulous writers such as Andrea Abreu and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Judith Hermann’s AT HOME (Hemma, Weyler Förlag, 2023) is nominated for the Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns International Literary Award 2023. Translated by Jesper Festin! Fingers crossed now for October 24. Finnish and Icelandic rights are still available! The novel received enormous press in Sweden. Here…
WeiterlesenWilhelm 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…
WeiterlesenSHORTLISTED 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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