fiction

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…