non fiction
Florian Illies‘ THE MAGIC OF SILENCE sold to Sweden and Denmark
He did it again: Florian Illies‘ breaks with genre rules and startles his readers into feverish curiosity into a whole new topic. I am very happy to announce that MAGIC OF SILENCE will be published in Swedish by Norstedts and Danish by Gutkind. Yeah. The adventurous life of Caspar David Friedrich’s pictures of yearning –…
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…
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…
Weiterlesen#1 Best Non Fiction Book this July August – FREEDOM TO STAY by Eva von Redecker
Eva von Redecker – „ one of the most interesting thinkers of her generation” (Der Spiegel) – just published her new essay at S. Fischer and FREEDOM TO STAY is currently #1 of the non-fiction best list of ZDF Kultur, Deutschlandfunk and DIE ZEIT this July + August: Freedom has always been associated with movement: Thomas Hobbes…
WeiterlesenHOW TO EAT A MAMOTH? sold to Norway, Korea and the US
The fabulous cultural history „How to Eat a Mammoth? The History of Humanity in 50 Dishes“ by Uta Seeburg is making its way North: Frisk Forlag acquired the Norwegian rights!! Not only Norwegian rights have been sold, but also Korean (to Vison B & P) and World English (to The Experiment), so do take a…
WeiterlesenSold to Finland: The Chinese Phantom. The World’s Most Dangerous Arms Dealer or: The Powerlessness of the West
The new book from the Pulitzer Prize winning journalists who uncovered the Panama Papers: „The Chinese Phantom. The World’s Most Dangerous Arms Dealer or: The Powerlessness of the West“ by Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier, Philipp Josef Grüll and Christoph Giesen. I am happy to say that Atena in Finland acquired the rights to this breath-taking…
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…
WeiterlesenSold to Denmark: MAN(N) of the Sea by Volker Weidermann
Every book by the one and only Volker Weidermann makes my heart go boom and I am happy that his Danish fans are getting the same chance: Turbine just acquired the Danish rights to Volker’s new book MAN(N) OF THE SEA. THOMAS MANN AND THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE. With lightness and humor, warmth and…
WeiterlesenSold to Denmark and Norway: THE BECOMING OF KILLERS
Thriller star Romy Hausmann re-invents herself with this true crime project and takes her fans to a whole new level of talking/thinking/living crime! Her Danish publisher Superlux and her Norwegian publisher Cappelen Damm just acquired rights. Nothing is as brutal as reality: For years, whenever Romy Hausmann researched her thrillers, she came across the stories…
WeiterlesenReading Recommendation: THE GOLD COAST. AN ODYSSEY by Isabel Fargo Cole
Isabel Fargo Cole’s THE GOLD COAST was published two weeks ago and sold out on the spot. Mixing nature writing, narrative non-fiction and memoirs in a grandiose description of Alaska and the early age of the large scale exploitation of nature by men, THE GOLD COAST perfectly embodies the spirit of what made the success…
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