A Dagens Nyheter Top Ten Title: FROM THE SUGAR FACTOR by Dorothee Elmiger

Dorothee Elmiger’s FROM THE SUGAR FACTORY (Hanser 2020) has been a Dagens Nyheter Top Ten title for weeks now. Here is a selection of quotes from the raving reviews in Sweden:   Dorothee Elmiger writes thought-provokingly and emotionally in „From the Sugar Factory“. There is never a long way between literature and reality in Dorothee…

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World English rights sold!

Restless Books acquired World English rights to Max Czollek’s DESINTEGRATE YOURSELVES! (Hanser Verlag) and we could not be happier! Max Czollek is thirty, Jewish and angry. Because there are some strange rules in Germany regarding migrants. A good migrant is someone who speaks out against the oppression of women, Islamism and democracy. And a good…

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THE FOREST…AND I sold to Norway!

We are absolutely this thrilled what huge steps this slim narrative self-help title is taking in Germany AND NOW abroad, too! We just sold rights to Tessa Randau, THE FOREST, FOUR QUESTIONS, LIFE, AND I (DTV 2020) Pantagruel in Norway – yuhuu! the book made #19 on SPIEGEL’s annual topseller list for 2020 500 reviews on…

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Mark Benecke’s ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF ANIMALS sold to Norway!

Mark Benecke studied biology, zoology, and psychology and wrote his doctoral thesis on genetic fingerprinting. An internationally sought-after criminal biologist, he trained with the FBI and has been involved in investigating many international criminal cases. With his latest coup, ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF ANIMALS (Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2020), he delivers an hommage to the animals closest…

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Sold to Sweden: Byung-Chul Han’s PAIN TODAY: THE PALLIATIVE SOCIETY

Exactly 10 years after his world bestseller The Burn-out Society translated into over 30 languages, Han provides us with a new analysis of our modern societies. In Sweden, PAIN TODAY. THE PALLIATIVE SOCIETY (Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2020) will be published by Ersatz. Rights sold to English World (Polity), Spanish World (Herder), Portugal (Religio d‘Agua),…

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Sold to Norway: Birgit Bulla’s Book on the Bladder

We are super thrilled about the international start of Birgit Bulla’s HOME AND DRY? Everything You Need to Know About Your Bladder, to be published by hanserblau at the end of September. Rights in Norway were just pre-empted! Rights sold English World (Scribe), Italy (Punto d’Incontro), Korea (Open Books), Norway (Manuskript). Did you know that…

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Irina Liebmann receives the Uwe Johnson Prize 2020

Irina Liebmann receives the Uwe Johnson Prize for her book DIE GROSSE HAMBURGER STRASSE (Schöffling & Co.)! Earlier recipients include Uwe Tellkamp, Lutz Seiler and Ralf Rothmann. Grosse Hamburger Straße is located in the centre of old Berlin. Virtually nothing is left of this old centre, because over the decades the buildings were continually altered,…

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