fiction
Nominated for the German Book Award 2023: LONGLIST
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…
WeiterlesenGITTERSEE by Charlotte Gneuß wins Jürgen Ponto Debut Prize 2023
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…
WeiterlesenMARZAHN, MON AMOUR: sold to Norway, out in Sweden!
Rights to Katja Oskamp’s huge bestselling MARZAHN, MON AMOUR, winner of the Dublin Literary Award 2023, just sold to Forlaget Press in Norway! Katja Oskamp is in her mid-forties when her life grows dull. Her child has left home, her husband is ill, and her writing, which was her all up till then, is only…
WeiterlesenSold to Norway, Denmark and Sweden: Peter Flamm’s ME?
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…
WeiterlesenThe 2nd volume of Julia Schoch’s trilogy BIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN sold to Denmark
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…
WeiterlesenThe 3rd volume of Monika Helfer’s bestselling trilogy, LIONHEART, sold to Denmark and Sweden
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…
Weiterlesenbestseller alert: Caroline Wahl and 22 LENGTHS
Caroline Wahl’s debut novel 22 LENGTHS is #8 on the SPIEGEL bestseller list with almost 40.000 copies sold since April! „I’ve been whizzing through 22 Lengths and I’m absolutely thrilled. Heartwarming, fine, merciless and really beautiful at the same time.“ ALINA BRONSKY “22 Lengths is an accomplished debut by Caroline Wahl, an exciting new voice…
WeiterlesenSold to Denmark: SCHRÖDINGER’S GRRRL by Marlen Hobrack
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…
WeiterlesenRobert Habeck and Andrea Paluch’s mystery crime in Danish: Superlux acquires rights to THE DEATH OF HAUKE HAIN
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…
WeiterlesenMARZAHN, MON AMOUR wins Dublin Literary Award 2023
Katja Oskamp’s fabulous auto-fictional book MARZAHN, MON AMOUR just won the Dublin Literary Award 2023. In it a failed writer seeks a second chance in life and becomes a chiropodist, taking care of peoples feet and lotion-ing away while the people of Marzahn, a famous working-class East Berlin neighborhood, tell her their life stories. Beautiful…
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