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Rights List
London Book Fair 2023
www.suhrkamp.de/foreignrights
Authors and Estates
represented by Suhrkamp/Insel
A selection
Theodor W. Adorno Hans Magnus Wolfgang Koeppen Bärbel Reetz
Robert Alexy Enzensberger Reinhart Koselleck Christoph Ribbat
Carolin Amlinger Urs Faes Siegfried Kracauer Hartmut Rosa
Juri Andruchowytsch Yannic Han Biao Federer Michael Krüger Gerhard Roth
Friedrich Ani Erika Fischer-Lichte Benjamín Labatut Ralf Rothmann
Ingeborg Bachmann Marieluise Fleißer Christian Lehnert Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Zsófia Bán Rainer Forst Svenja Leiber Philipp Sarasin
Polina Barskova Manfred Frank Philipp Lepenies Judith Schalansky
Priya Basil Günter Frankenberg Gertrud Leutenegger Wilhelm Schmid
Wolfgang Bauer Max Frisch Sibylle Lewitscharoff Gershom Scholem
Barbara von Bechtolsheim Valerie Fritsch Niklas Luhmann Lutz Seiler
Ulrich Beck Marianne Fritz Nicolas Mahler Clemens J. Setz
Zoë Beck Markus Gabriel Andreas Maier Daria Serenko
Jurek Becker Gunther Geltinger Philip Manow Peter Sloterdijk
Jürgen Becker Rainald Goetz Steffen Mau Manfred Sommer
Ulla Berkéwicz Johannes Groschupf Friederike Mayröcker Philipp Staab
Thomas Bernhard Durs Grünbein Thomas Meinecke Andrzej Stasiuk
Barbara Beuys Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Robert Menasse Angela Steidele
Marcel Beyer Jürgen Habermas Christoph Menke Maria Stepanova
Peter Bichsel Anna Katharina Hahn Winfried Menninghaus Wolfgang Streeck
Thomas Biebricher Michael Hampe Andreas Michalsen Natascha Strobl
Ernst Bloch Peter Handke Alice Miller Peter Szondi
Hans Blumenberg Sabine Hark Robert Misik Uwe Tellkamp
Karl Heinz Bohrer Mina Hava Christoph Möllers Philipp Ther
Szilárd Borbély Christoph Hein Heiner Müller Stephan Thome
Nora Bossong Heinz Helle Stefan Müller-Doohm Hans Traxler
Emma Braslavsky Florian Henckel von Hans-Wilhelm Müller- Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Volker Braun Donnersmarck Wohlfahrt Galsan Tschinag
Bertolt Brecht Dieter Henrich Martin Mulsow Ernst Tugendhat
Fritz Breithaupt Hermann Hesse Oliver Nachtwey Peter Turrini
Hermann Broch Jörg Hilbert Melinda Nadj Abonji Siegfried Unseld
Ulrich Bröckling Wolfgang Hildesheimer Angelika Neuwirth Kia Vahland
Paul Brodowsky Ludwig Hohl Jakob Nolte Roger Van de Velde
Simone Buchholz Axel Honneth Hans Erich Nossack Kevin Vennemann
Paul Celan Eva Illouz Christoph Nußbaumeder Martin Walser
Ann Cotten Rahel Jaeggi Elif Özmen Robert Walser
Sigrid Damm Uffa Jensen Deniz Ohde Peter Weiss
Zoltán Danyi Hans Joas Albert Ostermaier Philipp Weiss
© Jürgen Bauer
László Darvasi Uwe Johnson Emine Sevgi Özdamar Lambert Wiesing
Adrian Daub Hans Jonas Katja Petrowskaja Josef Winkler
Ljubko Deresch Dževad Karahasan Andreas Pflüger Katharina Winkler
Fiction & Literary Non-fiction
Hans Peter Duerr Anna Kim Marion Poschmann Christa Wolf
Ulrike Edschmid Esther Kinsky Doron Rabinovici Serhij Zhadan
Günter Eich Julia Kissina Hanno Rauterberg Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Nana Ekvtimishvili Alexander Kluge Juliane Rebentisch Slavoj Žižek
Sirka Elspaß Ariane Koch Andreas Reckwitz Maxim Znak
In memoriam
© Jürgen Bauer
»One of Germany’s leading public
intellectuals.« London Review of Books
»He was and is a lone fighter as a critical
European, one who has so far most
Suhrkamp Verlag mourns the loss of
powerfully executed the tasks of the Hans Magnus Enzensberger, who died on
»As a critical observer, Enzensberger always intellectual in dealing with the realities of
had the catastrophe in mind, but he did Europe – Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It was November 24, 2022, at age 93 in Munich.
not sit before it like a rabbit before a snake; and is the same Enzensberger who, in turn,
rather, he remained an optimist.« Paul Jandl, was one of the very few thinkers of public As a poet, essayist, writer, biographer, publisher and translator, he was one of the world’s most
Neue Zürcher Zeitung authority to warn against ›terror’s men‹ of influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals.
religious fundamentalism.« Born in 1929 in the Bavarian Allgäu, Enzensberger studied literature, languages and philosophy
»Enzensberger had an instinct for social Martin Meyer, Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Freiburg and Paris, among other places. In 1955, he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on the
processes, cultivated a diagnosis of poetics of Clemens Brentano. Two years later he published his first book, Verteidigung der Wölfe,
contemporary history that merged inseparably »There is hardly a socio-political topic that a volume of poetry. In the 1950s, he became a member of the Gruppe 47. The members of this
with literary imagination.« Helmut Böttiger, Hans Magnus Enzensberger has not dealt legendary writers’ group joined forces to revive German literature in the post-World War II years.
Zeit Online with, no literary genre in which he has not The correspondence between Enzensberger and Ingeborg Bachmann, »Schreib alles was wahr ist
been active ...« Katja Gasser, 3sat auf« (2018), is a fascinating testament to the intellectual-literary debates of that time. From 1965
»In all his facets, Hans Magnus Enzensberger onwards, Enzensberger published Kursbuch, a journal he co-founded, with Suhrkamp Verlag, which
was not just the intellectual heartbeat »Like no other in the history of Germany, he added an important voice to the discourse on the self-image of the Federal Republic. Since then,
of a more interesting Federal Republic represents common-sense thinking.« many of his works have been published by Suhrkamp Verlag, including the volume Mausoleum
over the decades; he was its most worldly Moritz von Uslar, Zeit Online (1978), which talks about the contradictions of »progress« in 37 ballads, or Ach Europa! (1989), in
representative and often far ahead of his which Enzensberger looks at our continent from the margins.
Going beyond just Germany, his many travels, including to the USA, Mexico, Norway and Italy,
country.« Paul Ingendaay, Frankfurter Allgemeine »We know of no one with whom we would
provided him with more diverse cultural insights and contributed to the internationality of his
Zeitung rather make sense of this world.«
thought and writing. Tumult, in which Enzensberger deals with his own past, was met with great
Andreas Isenschmid, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
critical acclaim in 2014. Beyond that, Hans Magnus Enzensberger rendered outstanding services
»We might call out a ›Thank you‹ to him, for his to Suhrkamp Verlag as a member of its supervisory board from 2013 to 2015.
keen eye, for course and counter-course – and »But precisely because he was so present, so Hans Magnus Enzensberger has received numerous national and international awards for his
wonderful verse.« Christian von Rechenberg, ZDF utterly contemporary, it could be that we, the various literary activities, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 1963, the Heinrich Böll Prize in
descendants, will miss his voice very quickly, 1985, the Premio d’Annunzio in 2006, the Sonningprisen in 2010 and most recently the Frank
perhaps already from this moment.« Schirrmacher Prize in 2015.
Jochen Schimmang, taz. die tageszeitung After the publication of his collected Poems 1950-2020 as well as the volume Fallobst – Nur
ein Notizbuch on the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2019, the volume of poetry Wirrwarr was
published most recently by Suhrkamp Verlag in February 2020.
Literary Fiction
»There are few other writers able to create such fantastic interconnections
of the organic and the mechanical, the animate and the inanimate.« Clemens J. Setz
Moons before the Landing
Jutta Person, Süddeutsche Zeitung
The new, electrifying novel about contrarianism and
alternative facts by the Büchner-Preis laureate
Worms in the early twenties of the last Clemens J. Setz
century. Peter Bender, a former lieutenant Moons before the Landing
pilot in the German Army, makes a name Novel
for himself as the founder of a new religious With illustrations
(Original title: Monde vor
community and with the proclamation
der Landung. Roman)
of the so-called Hollow World Theory:
approx. 528 pages
according to this theory, humanity does
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which nothing exists. Bender’s flock stays
small, but nevertheless he is sentenced to Domestic Rights Sales:
several months in prison for distributing German Audiobook
inflammatory and blasphemous pamphlets. (Roof Music)
When word gets out that his wife was Selected for New Books in
Jewish after the Nazis seize power, even German – translation funding
his closest followers turn their backs on guaranteed for the English
him. The Benders fall into poverty and language
the repressions against his wife become Clemens J. Setz, born in Graz in
unbearable until the family is arrested 1982, studied mathematics and
and deported in 1942. Only Bender’s German language and literature
at the University of Graz from
son survives the concentration camp.
2001 to 2009. Today he lives in
Vienna. Clemens J. Setz is the
In his long-awaited new novel, Clemens »His aesthetics are so author of novels, short stories,
J. Setz reconstructs the real story of a life unique in German-language poems and plays. He has
and a family that is as moving as it is dis- literature – and not just
received numerous awards for
his works.
turbing. But beyond that, Moons before
in that – that Clemens J. Setz
the Landing is also an investigation of Awards (selection):
wouldn’t be appropriately
the destructive delusion of a manic ego- Georg-Büchner-Preis 2021
centric and an illustration of contrarian-
described with any Kleist-Preis 2020
ism avant la lettre: startlingly topical, of and all superlatives one Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis
unsurpassable linguistic and intellectual could think of.« 2020
Berliner Literaturpreis 2019
originality. Marie Schmidt, Süddeutsche Zeitung Merck Kakehashi Award 2018 for
Indigo (Japan)
Literaturpreis der Steiermark 2017
Delusion versus delusion
Wilhelm-Raabe-Preis 2015 for Die
Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre
Longlisted for the German
Selected Backlist: Book Prize 2015 for Die Stunde
zwischen Frau und Gitarre
Der Trost runder Dinge (2019) International Sales: Russia (Symposium), France (Actes Sud),
Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises
Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Japan (Kokusho Kankokai), Poland (Filtry), Greece
der deutschen Wirtschaft 2013
(Gutenberg); Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Griot)
Shortlisted for the German Book
Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre (2015) International Sales: France (Jacqueline Chambon), Prize 2012 for Indigo
Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Bulgaria (Paradox) Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
Indigo (2012) International Sales: USA (W. W. Norton / Liveright), UK (Serpent’s Tail), Chinese simplex 2011 for Die Liebe zur Zeit des
rights (CITIC Press / Sight), France (Jacqueline Chambon), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Netherlands Mahlstädter Kindes
(Leesmagazijn), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Japan (Kokusho Kankokai), Croatia (Hena Com), Greece Bremer Literaturpreis 2010 for
(Gutenberg); previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese Die Frequenzen
complex rights (China Times), Czech Republic (Fra), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Funtasy); Domestic Rights Shortlisted for the German Book
© Rafaela Pröll
Sales: German Audiobook (Roof Music) Prize 2009 for Die Frequenzen
Ernst-Willner-Preis at the Ingeborg
Bachmann Competition 2008
Essays
Kateryna Mishchenko /Katharina Raabe
From the Fog of War
Seventeen authors report how their life and way of thinking
have changed since the beginning of the war
In 2014, Russia shook the architecture of From the Fog of War
European security to its very foundations Ukraine’s Current
with the annexation of Crimea and the Situation
war in the Donbas. Ever since the large- Edited by Kateryna
Mishchenko and
scale attack on the whole of Ukraine, that
Katharina Raabe
security is history. The Russian military
(Original title: Aus dem
is bringing death, pain, fear, and terror
Nebel des Krieges. Die
to millions of people. The Ukrainian state Gegenwart der Ukraine)
and society are withstanding, supported approx. 240 pages
by the international community in the Paperback
West – but so far, they have not suc- Release: March 2023
ceeded in breaking Moscow’s desire for
© Masha Pryven
destruction. Rights available
Since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, thousands Kateryna Mishchenko, born
of people have died, hundreds of thousands in Poltava, Ukraine, in 1984,
have suffered terror and destruction, is an essayist, translator and
publisher based in Kyiv. She
millions of citizens have fled. And yet, the
worked as an interpreter
resistance continues. Out of the fog of war, the field of human rights
a new, uncertain future is emerging. The and was a co-founder of the
authors of this volume – writers, scholars, journal Prostory. In 2015, she
activists, artists and journalists – capture published her book Ukrainian
Night. Her essays appear in
the simultaneity: the ruin that is brought
international magazines and
to life and its places; civil and military self- anthologies. In the 2022/23
assertion; the will to create a new, peaceful academic year she is a Fellow
homeland. They describe and analyse the at the Berlin Institute for
situation of traumatised people in war – Advanced Study.
their profound transformation, their ability
© Jürgen Bauer
Katharina Raabe, born in
to nevertheless find themselves in very
Hamburg, Germany, in 1957, is
uncertain times. the editor for Eastern European
literature at Suhrkamp Verlag.
Her recent publications as an
With contributions by Kateryna Mishchenko, Oksana
Karpovych, Volodymyr Rafeienko, Artem Chapeye, Alisa
»I must try a new editor of anthologies include
Ganieva, Oksana Dutchak, Angelina Kariakina, Nataliya to understand human Gefährdete Nachbarschaften –
Ukraine, Russland, Europäische
Gumenyuk, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Yuriy Hrytsyna,
Svitlana Matviyenko, Stanislav Aseyev, Irina Zherebkina, beings and humanity Union, Testfall Ukraine. Europa
und seine Werte (with Manfred
Susanne Strätling, Tamara Hundorova, Karl Schlögel
and Aleida Assmann
in a concrete historical Sapper, 2015) and Warum
moment – that is what Lesen. Mindestens 24 Gründe
(with Frank Wegner, 2020).
this long night of the war
of annihilation means
to me.« Kateryna Mishchenko
Literary Fiction
Mina Hava
For Seka
The debut novel of an exciting new Swiss author –
as poetic as it is political
All that is left is an envelope with a hand- Mina Hava
ful of photographs – as well as the fear For Seka
of her father, the worry for her mother Novel
and her brother, and the knots in her (Original title: Für Seka.
Roman)
chest. In her early twenties, Seka is look-
approx. 278 pages
ing for the traces of her broken family
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and of her scattered life up to this point.
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She reconstructs her parents’ journey
from Bosnia to Switzerland and asks
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about the connections, the threads lead-
ing to her. On her search, she finds the Selected for New Books in
Pröll
1990’s Omarska concentration camp
Steinweg
German – translation funding
HeikeRafaela
and a letter that leads her to The Hague guaranteed for the English
and Geneva, later to the Bernese High- language
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lands. She notices that ore is mined in
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Mina Hava, born in 1998,
Omarska today, as if history, that of an studied Global History and
almost-forgotten war in Europe, didn’t ex- Science Studies at the Swiss
ist. Even though the wounds of the past About the long thread Federal Institute of Technology
continue to have an effect on the present. of history – narrative in Zurich and Creative Writing
at the German Institute for
Mina Hava combines historic material, self-empowerment Literature in Leipzig. Für Seka is
her debut novel.
research and reconstruction with personal overshadowed by
experiences, losses and fears – and
examines what history means to landscapes
recent European
and bodies. For Seka sensitively describes history
a young life in which the political and the
private are inextricably linked, a story of
leaving and being left and the question of
what was.
Literary Thriller
Fiction Literary Fiction
Paul Brodowsky Anna Kim Shortlisted
Fathers Story of a Child for the Austrian
Book Prize
2022
An internal map of fatherhood and a piece of German history, How the gaze of others can make lonely
from the Weimar Republic to the 21st century »The best Austrian novel of the year.« Der Kurier
His father, born in 1933, only talks about the Paul Brodowsky In a small town in the US state of Wisconsin, Anna Kim
Nazi era when Paul asks him about it. About Fathers twenty-year-old telephone operator Carol Story of a Child
the National Political Institute of Education, Novel Truttman gives birth to a child in July 1953. Novel
the Napola, about the Jewish furrier at the (Original title: Väter. Roman) That same night, she gives the boy up for (Original title: Geschichte
approx. 302 pages eines Kindes)
market and about his uncle. Uncle Paul, after adoption. Daniel, as he is called, remains in
Clothbound 220 pages
whom the son is named and who was a district the care of social services. Soon the nurses
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manager for the NSDAP. The son, born in tending to him are confronted with what
Release: August 2022
1980 as the youngest of eight children, finds they see as a serious suspicion: Contrary
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only a slim file in the Federal Archives. But to the mother’s statement, the baby does
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the questions keep playing on his mind: How Paul Brodowsky was born in not appear to be »white« but, as the official
do National Socialist influences continue to Kiel in 1980. He studied Creative language of the time put it, »Indian«, »Polish« Portuguese rights
survive in his family? Which inherited ideals, Writing and Cultural Journalism or »negroid« – a scandal in a homogeneously (Dom Quixote), Korea
which patriarchal ideas have been inscribed at the University of Hildesheim. white society subjected to the rigorous laws (Eulyoo), Greece
He was co-founder and editor of
in him and are perhaps even passed on by of racial segregation. The social worker (Nissos)
the literary magazine BELLA triste
him? In which conflicts do they still come as well as artistic co-director of Marlene Winckler, originally from Austria,
Selected for New Books in
to light today? He realises how challenging the first Hildesheim literature is tasked with determining the true ethnicity
German – translation funding
it is to find his role as a progressive father festival PROSANOVA. His plays of the child. To do so, however, she must first guaranteed for the English
in dealing with his own children, especially premiered at the Schaubühne find the child’s father, whose identity the language
Berlin and the Theater Freiburg,
since he lacks clear role models for this. biological mother refuses to reveal. Neither
among others, and were invited
to the Stückemarkt of the Berliner
society nor its institutions do anything to Anna Kim was born in
Daejeon, South Korea, in
In his novel Fathers, Paul Brodowsky Theatertreffen. He is Professor stop her on her obsessive and increasingly
1977. In 1979 her family
talks about a century of German history. of »Dramatic Technique« in the destructive search for truth. Readers are moved to Germany and then
He condenses memories, research and Creative Writing for the Stage as unsparingly confronted with her report, to Vienna, Austria, where
reflections into a picture of West Germa- course at the UdK Berlin. Väter is the »file Daniel Truttman«, as the narrator, she also lives today. She has
his first novel.
ny after National Socialism – and deals a writer with Austrian-Korean roots – received numerous prizes and
with things that are kept secret in many whom Daniel’s wife asks to find Marlene fellowships for her belletristic
Awards (selection):
and essayistic work, including
families to this day, drawing an arc from Preis der Autoren der Frankfurter Winckler sixty years after these events in
the European Union Prize for
the 1930s to the present. An unsparing Autorenstiftung 2008 order to maybe finally help Daniel, who is Literature.
self-examination and a search for traces of »Writer in Residence« at Villa now critically ill. The further the narrator
Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los
how children are shaped by their grand- delves into Daniel’s story and into the search Selected Backlist:
Angeles, California 2008
fathers and fathers. Förderpreis für Literatur des
for Winckler, the more her view of her own Die große Heimkehr
Landes Niedersachsen 2006 past and her family background begins to (2017) International Sales:
© Heike Steinweg
© Werner Geiger
A highly topical examination of the »Writer in Residence« at unravel. English world rights (Granta),
silence among the generations Deutsches Haus at New York Netherlands (Signatuur)
University Winter 2005/06
Anna Kim’s Story of a Child is about the Anatomie einer Nacht
Jahresstipendium des Deutschen
powerful and fatal idea of »race«, which (2012) International Sales:
»Stylistically confident, eloquent, Literaturfonds 2005
not only still shapes societies today, but France (Jacqueline Chambon),
fast-paced.« Hans-Peter Kunisch, Die »His father hadn’t been a Arbeitsstipendium des Landes
»Based on true events, this is Denmark (Tiderne Skifter),
Niedersachsen 2003 also permeates the private sphere, di-
Zeit, on ›Die blinde Fotografin‹ member of the NSDAP, likely vides families, prevents careers and de-
a lucid, nuanced and touching Korea (Eulyoo), Poland
due to complacency, says my Selected Backlist:
termines life paths. Clever and touching, exploration of how we look at (Jagiellonian UP), Bulgaria
(Paradox), Turkey (Alti Kirk
father. His uncle was different. Die blinde Fotografin (2007) this novel, based on a true incident, talks one another, what we imagine Bes); previously published,
Uncle Paul, the one I am Milch Holz Katzen (2002)
about the way we look at one another and we see when we do, and the rights available again: English
named after, about whom about what we believe we see in the other. continued impact of race on world rights digital (Frisch
I am only told great things identity, self-image, family and & Co.)
throughout my childhood.« opportunity. With echoes of Lemn
Sissay’s ›My Name is Why‹, it
should have a wide appeal.«
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Literary Fiction
»His books are absolutely contemporary
and cunningly ageless at the same time.« Deutschlandradio Kultur
Dževad Karahasan
Introduction to Floating
The new novel by the great European storyteller
A story of love and friendship in Sarajevo under siege
Peter Hurd, classical philologist and Dževad Karahasan
mythologist, comes to Sarajevo for a Introduction to Floating
reading – just a few days before the war Novel
begins. When his translator and admirer (Original title: Uvod u
lebdenje, published by
Rajko takes him to the bus station to see
Connectum, Sarajevo and
him off, Peter decides to stay on the spur
Bulevar, Novi Sad in 2022)
of the moment: he doesn’t want to miss
(Title of the German edition
the chance to witness how people behave by Suhrkamp: Einübung ins
in extreme situations. He shares everyday Schweben. Roman)
life with Rajko, accompanies him through 303 pages
the neighbourhood under shellfire, meets Clothbound
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his friends and relatives, including Sanja, Release: January 2023
Ohlbaum
Rafaela
with whom he falls in love. One day he sets
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off alone and when he returns, he is barely
Isolde
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Italy (Keller Editore)
recognisable ...
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Dževad Karahasan, born in
Never before has Karahasan, the literary Duvno, Yugoslavia, in 1953,
»Dževad Karahasan ... is the
chronicler of Sarajevo, told such a vivid is one of the most important
most important chronicler of this contemporary authors. His
and multi-faceted story of what it means
to survive days and nights in a city sur-
siege, in which around 14,000 extensive œuvre includes
rounded by smoke and stench and yet not people died, and one of the most novels, essays, short stories
and plays. He has received
lose hope and humour. Circling around important writers of the former numerous awards, including the
an invisible axis, his story explores an Yugoslavia.« SR2 Leipzig Book Prize for European
ethical and existential borderline experi- Understanding 2004 and the
ence – an introduction to floating. »Reading Karahasan again is more Goethe Prize of the City of
Frankfurt 2020. He lives in Graz
topical than ever in this age of and Sarajevo.
Selected Backlist: supposedly cemented identities.«
Awards (selection):
Što pepeo priča (First published in 2015 by Simurg Marko Martin, Die Welt
Goethe-Preis 2020 (Germany)
Media) (German: Der Trost des Nachthimmels, 2016)
Jeanette Schocken Preis 2019
International Sales: Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai »He is one of the great European (Germany)
Translation Publishing House), Bulgaria (Paradox),
Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (Iletisim), Greece (Hestia),
scholars of our times. A book Franz-Nabl-Preis 2017 (Austria)
Part 1: Macedonia (Templum) that one should have read to Honorary doctorate, Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences
understand Europe’s most recent, at the University of Basel 2014
Sara i Serafina (First published in 1999 by Durieux)
painful history.« ORF Goethe Medal of the Goethe-
(German: Sara und Serafina, 2000) International Sales: Institut 2012 (Germany)
Arabic world rights (Alaan), Turkey (Ketebe); previously Ehrengabe of the Heinrich Heine
published in the respective language / territory; »Readers let Dževad Karahasan Society 2012 (Germany)
rights available again: Spanish world rights (Galaxia take them by the hand with great Vilenica International Literary
Gutenberg), France (Laffont), Italy (Il Saggiatore),
pleasure. The Bosnian novelist Prize of the Slovene Writers’
Sweden (Bosnisk-Hercegovinska Riksförbundet i
Sverige), Slovenia (Cankarjeva Založba) and essayist, who grew up with Association 2010 (Slovenia)
Leipzig Book Award for European
the Quran, well-versed in Goethe Understanding 2004 (Germany)
Dnevnik selidbe (First published in 1993 by Durieux) and Georg Büchner, appears as a Herder-Preis 1999 (Germany)
(German: Tagebuch der Übersiedlung, revised edition
2021) International Sales: Italy (ADV); previously
welcome pilot amidst the perils of Bruno-Kreisky-Preis for Political
Writing 1995 (Austria)
published in the respective language / territory; rights West-East misunderstandings.« Prix européen de l’essai Charles
available again: USA & Canada (Kodansha America), Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung Veillon 1994 (Switzerland)
Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), France Yugoslavian Novel Prize 1990
(Calmann-Lévy), Netherlands (Van Gennep), Czech (Yugoslavia)
Republic (Mlada Fronta), Slovenia (Wieser) Veselin Masleša Prize 1981
(Yugoslavia)
Poetry Literary Non-Fiction
Maria Stepanova Esther Kinsky
Holy Winter 20/21 Seeing Farther
Leipzig Book
Prize for European
Understanding
The new outstanding work by the internationally acclaimed author 2023
Esther Kinsky’s powerfully eloquent and pictorial declaration
of In Memory of Memory, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
and winner of a Prix du Meilleur livre étranger of love to the cinema
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic cut Maria Stepanova On a journey through the south-east of Esther Kinsky
short Maria Stepanova’s stay in Cambridge, Holy Winter 20/21 Hungary, the narrator stops off in an almost Seeing Farther
UK, in March 2020. Back in Russia, she (Original Russian title: completely deserted village on the border With 40 colour
spent the ensuing months in a state of Священная зима 20/21, to Romania. Resignation and a glorification photographs
published in 2021 by (Original title: Weiter
torpor – the world had withdrawn from her, of the past are the most dominant threads
Novoe) Sehen)
time had »gone numb«. When she awoke in the inhabitants’ conversations. Like
(Translated German title: approx. 200 pages
from this state, she began to read Ovid and many other things, the cinema, »Mozi« in
Winterpoem) Clothbound
the shock of the pandemic dissolved into 52 pages Hungarian, has long since closed. Once the Release: April 2023
the voices and metaphors of an epochal Clothbound centre of the village, the only important role
experience. Motifs that had waited within Release of the German it plays now is in the stories and memories International Sales:
her for a long time found each other. As in edition by Suhrkamp: April of those who remain. Her own passion for
UK & Commonwealth
The Body Returns, she transforms historic 2023 the cinema moves the narrator to bring the
(Fitzcarraldo),
and current cataclysms into an incredibly decaying »Mozi« back to life.
Italy (Iperborea),
delicate, flexible construct of rhythms and International Sales: In her new book, Esther Kinsky talks Netherlands (Pluim)
voices. USA (New Directions), about the irresistible magic of the cin-
The poem, which was written in a frenzy UK & Commonwealth ema, a place »where humour, horror and Esther Kinsky has been
of poetic inspiration, speaks of winter (Bloodaxe Books), Italy relief found communal expression with- awarded numerous literary
and war, of banishment and exile, of so- (Bompiani) out threat to the anonymity of the dark- prizes, domestic and
international, for her extensive
cial isolation and existential abandon- ened room«. Running underneath the
œuvre, which includes
ment. Stepanova finds sublime imagery The poet and essayist Maria fervent enthusiasm for the cinema and translations from the Polish,
Stepanova, born in 1972,
for the process of falling silent: words reflections on the »great temple of mov- Russian and English as well
has been a formative figure
that we call out to each other freezing in Moscow’s cosmopolitan ing images« is the question: how »seeing as poetry, essays, children’s
in the air, for instance, and no longer literary scene for a good farther« and talking about it is possible books and works of fiction.
reaching our interlocutor. The work in- twenty years. Following the when the site of a shared experience has
terweaves love letters and travelogues, success of her first prose been dismantled in favour of the privati-
work In Memory of Memory, Selected Backlist:
Chinese verse and Danish fairy tales sation of life and experience?
she is now internationally Rombo (2022)
into a polyphonic evocation of frozen and regarded as one of the most International Sales:
slowly thawing time. important intellectual voices USA & Canada (NYRB),
of contemporary Russia. Her »Esther Kinsky has created a UK & Commonwealth
poetry is not hermetic. She literary œuvre of impressive (Fitzcarraldo), Spanish world
Selected Backlist: takes in the confusing signals stylistic brilliance, thematic rights (Periférica), Catalan
© Ekko von Schwichow
Nach dem Gedächtnis (Original Russian title: Памяти from social networks and the
diversity and stubborn originality. rights (Angle), Portugal
© Heike Steinweg
Памяти, published by Novoe) (2018) International media, opens herself up to the (Elsinore), France (Christian
Sales: USA (New Directions), Canada (Book*hug voices of kindred poets like [...] It is always clear that for Bourgois), Italy (Iperborea),
Press), UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Sylvia Plath, Inger Christensen her the only landscape worth Netherlands (Pluim), Greece
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Chinese simplex and Anne Carson. In her prose, describing is the one in which (Potamos)
Stepanova searches for the
rights (China CITIC Press), Brazilian Portuguese
rights (WMF Martins Fontes), Portuguese rights essence of the moment in
she is currently situated. Far Hain (2018) International
(Relógio D’Água), Arabic world rights (Dar Athar), »Her writing exists on an edge the maelstrom of historical from ›eco-dreaming‹, without »In Esther Kinsky, German
Sales: UK & Commonwealth
(Fitzcarraldo), USA &
France (Stock, Paperback Sublicense: Le Livre de between an avid pursuit of the time. As an essayist, she sorrow or critique, Kinsky’s novels literature has an author Canada (Transit Books),
Poche), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), past and an acknowledgment of traces the reactions of her
and poems position humanity whose books are full of poetic Spanish world rights
critical consciousness; in
Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur),
Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Korea
the eventual meaninglessness of their sum, her politically alert in relation to the ruins it has intelligence. The understanding (Periférica), France
(Grasset), Italy (Il Saggiatore),
(Bokbok Seoga), Japan (Hakusuisha), Poland memorialising. There is a sense that commentaries form a chronicle produced and what still remains of of the world seems to be Netherlands (Pluim), Greece
(Prószyński), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Hungary she might, at any point, be tempted of the present. nature.« 2022 Kleist Prize Jury intensified here because it also (Potamos), Ukraine (Knihy
(Park), Bulgaria (Janet 54), Romania (Humanitas), into silence.« The Guardian recognises the ambivalences and XXI)
Suhrkamp represents world
Lithuania (Alma Littera), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia
(Booka), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (CAN), Greece rights to Maria Stepanova’s »What makes ›Grove‹ so noteworthy the irrational elements of this
(Vakxikon), North Macedonia (Bata Press) »Poetry of astonishing presence.« œuvre. is the keening, perfectly weighted world as its sources.« Paul Jandl,
Deutschlandfunk clarity of Esther Kinsky’s prose.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung on ›Rombo‹
Lucy Scholes, Financial Times on ›Grove‹
Literary Fiction Literary Fiction
Marianne Fritz Ann Cotten
The Weight of Things The Ancestors’ Instructions
Finally to be rediscovered: Marianne Fritz’s forgotten »There is hardly anything that can compare in the
1978 debut novel German-speaking area.« Dietmar Dath, FAZ
It’s 1945. A dull, heavy fog lies above the Marianne Fritz Is it the ancestors that are making the air Ann Cotten
city of Donaublau, where a pregnant Berta The Weight of Things heavy, crowding around the island? In the The Ancestors’
awaits her fiancé’s return from the front. Novel form of people, clouds, winds, fish, birds of Instructions
But instead of Rudolf, his friend Wilhelm With an afterword by the mountains, birds of the coast, migratory With numerous
Daniela Strigl illustrations
enters the room and delivers the news of birds and seabirds that come to Hawaii to
(Original title: Die (Original title: Die
Rudolf’s death to Berta, whose reply is but flirt, lay eggs, rest and then retreat back to
Schwerkraft der Anleitungen der Vorfahren.
a »well, well«. She marries the returning the open sea?
Verhältnisse. Roman. Mit Abbildungen)
soldier instead, a »worthy representative Mit einem Nachwort von approx. 170 pages
of his nation«, driver and footboy, and has Daniela Strigl) The Ancestors’ Instructions deals with one’s Paperback
a second child with him, jealously eyed by approx. 150 pages spiritual and material prehistory: with Release: March 2023
her friend Wilhelmine. But increasingly, life Clothbound crimes of colonization, that is. In Hawaii
seems like a bad dream to Berta, the weight First published in 1978 and at home – and where is that? In books? Rights available
of things pushes everyone down, especially Release of the new edition by The narrator, a guest on the island, receives
the little and very little people, maimed Suhrkamp: March 2023 gifts everywhere she goes: insights into Ann Cotten, born in Iowa in
and at a loss for words, until Berta sees no the Polynesian language, gloves to collect 1982, grew up in Vienna. She
International Sales: has been living in Berlin since
way out and suffocates her children in their rubbish, a lopper to clear thorny bushes. In
USA & Canada (Dorothy 2006.
sleep in a desperate attempt to remove them her head the old heroes: Graz School, Kyoto
from the grasp of their environment. Only Project), UK & Common- School, Vienna Circle. And the question: Awards (selection):
in a psychiatric institution does she find wealth (Verso), Span- How do affection and understanding work Gert-Jonke-Preis 2021
protection from the »wound that is life«. ish world rights (Alpha when you don’t belong? Back in Europe, she Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse
Decay), Portuguese offers looks at the world on her doorstep with new 2021 (nomination)
Hugo-Ball-Preis 2017
»Marianne Fritz was a genius«, writes pending, French world eyes.
Österreichischer Buchpreis
Marlene Streeruwitz after the death of rights (Le Quartanier), 2016 (longlist)
the Austrian writer. In her prize-winning Italy (Safara), Turkey Klopstock-Preis 2015
debut novel published in 1978, she looks (Olvido) Ernst-Bloch-Förderpreis 2015
Wilhelm-Lehmann-Preis 2014
with great compassion and brilliant hu-
Marianne Fritz, born in Weiz, Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis
mour at the silently smiling Wilhelm, 2014
Styria, in 1948, died in Vienna in
the calculating Wilhelmine – and at Ber- 2007, was a multi-award-winning Stipendium der Villa
ta, a petit-bourgeois Medea, who rebels Austrian author, who radically Kamogawa, Japan (Goethe-
against the narrowness and the corrosive Institut) 2014
© Digne Meller Marcovicz/bpk
evaded any sort of publicity
power of the post-war world order with a throughout her life. She spent Förderpreis des Hermann-
most of her adult life in a small Hesse-Literaturpreises 2012
quiet, destructive force. A bold, master-
apartment in Vienna’s 7th District Clemens Brentano Förderpreis
ful, shocking book. and devoted herself entirely to her der Stadt Heidelberg 2008
writing. Her major works include Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis 2007
Dessen Sprache du nicht verstehst
»Written in a brisk tone that and Naturgemäß I-III, the third Selected Backlist:
volume of which she was writing
disguises its destination, this »A harrowing book about at the time of her death.
Lyophilia (2019)
slow-burning horror story steps the horrors of motherhood,
Verbannt! (2016)
quietly and methodically into jealousy, and war trauma.« Awards (selection):
Robert Walser-Preis 1978
Der schaudernde Fächer
(2013): previously published,
a heart of familiar darkness. Kirkus Reviews Literaturpreis des Landes rights available again:
[…] The war haunts this novel, Steiermark 1988 Netherlands (Leesmagazijn)
Literaturpreis der Stadt Wien
adding to the weight of everyday »A tightly wrought 1994
things and everyday evils that masterwork of narrative, Österreichischer Würdigungspreis
Fritz so ingeniously dissects.« a little gem.« für Literatur 1998
Peter-Rosegger-Preis 1999
The New York Times Los Angeles Review of Books Franz-Kafka-Preis der Stadt
Klosterneuburg und der
österreichischen Franz-Kafka-
Literaturgesellschaft 2001Literary Fiction Literary Fiction
Andreas Maier Emine Sevgi Özdamar
The Homeland Mother Tongue
»A radical decomposition of identity, an erasure The prose debut by the winner of the
of one’s own origins.« Jörg Magenau, Süddeutsche Zeitung Georg-Büchner-Preis 2022
Germany in the early 1970s: a country full Andreas Maier »If only I knew where I lost my mother Emine Sevgi Özdamar
of fear of everything foreign. The only Italian The Homeland tongue«, the narrator asks herself in Emine Mother Tongue
at school seems like an alien being. In the Novel Sevgi Özdamar’s 1990 prose debut. After Stories
80s, it’s the Turkish people who are the first (Original title: Die Heimat. many years in Berlin, Turkish, her first (Original title:
Roman) Mutterzunge. Erzählungen)
to put the tables outside the restaurants. As language, has become foreign to her. In
approx. 245 pages 140 pages
the people of Wetterau celebrate the first search of her roots, she falls in love with
Clothbound Clothbound
kebabs in the district as »resistance food«, the scribe Ibni Abdullah, who introduces
Release: March 2023 First published in 1990
Hitler, who had long since disappeared, her to the »grandfather tongue« Arabic, the Release of the new edition
begins to conquer the public space on radio language of »holy« love and the Qur’an. And by Suhrkamp: October
Rights available
and television once again. In the nineties, she tells the fairy tale of the poor Turkish 2022
the narrator dreams his big dream of the peasant who arrives in faraway Germany
Wetterauer Land, but first he and his cousin Andreas Maier, born in Bad and finds himself working as a street International Sales:
disappear under a duvet at the Eastern Nauheim, Hesse, in 1967, studied sweeper – like so many of his people who,
philosophy and German philology, Japan (Hakusuisha),
border of the new republic. The return in the sixties and seventies, are transformed
and subsequently classical Turkey (Iletisim),
home is managed within the family, his philology. He lives near Frankfurt into the servant caste of West German cities.
Azerbaijan (Alatoran);
grandmother’s house is reconstructed as a am Main. Among numerous other Ultimately, even Ophelia herself is demoted
museal space while the ground plan, if only honours, he was awarded the from the stage of her homeland and becomes previously published
that, of the synagogue that burnt down in ZDF-»aspekte«-Literaturpreis, a cleaner in a German theatre in this clever, in the respective
1938 is restored in the town. But even in the the Robert-Gernhardt-Preis, the
confident book told with puckish irony. language / territory;
Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis and
new millennium, when the entire country is rights available again:
the Franz-Hessel-Preis. Awards (selection):
constantly discussing the term »homeland«, Georg-Büchner-Preis 2022 English world rights
no one wants to know about the past life in Selected Backlist: Schillerpreis 2022 (Coach House Press),
the concrete homeland, when those who Die Familie (2019) International Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis 2022 for Ein von Spanish world rights
ceased to exist with their deportation were Sales: Greece (World Books) Schatten begrenzter Raum
(Alfaguara), Nether-
Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse (shortlist) 2022
still alive. Der Ort (2015) International lands (De Geus)
for Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum
Sales: Denmark (Batzer)
Bayerischer Buchpreis for Fiction 2021 for Ein von
Die Straße (2013) International Schatten begrenzter Raum Emine Sevgi Özdamar grew
With an unerring sense for everything Sales: Denmark (Rosenkilde & DAAD Chair for Contemporary Poetics at New York up in Istanbul, where she
abysmal in lived normality, Andreas Bahnhof) University 2014 attended drama school. In the
Maier tells of Germany between World Das Haus (2011) International Alice Salomon Poetik Preis 2012 mid-seventies, she moved to
War II, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Sales: Denmark (Rosenkilde & Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille 2010 Berlin and Paris and worked
turn of the millennium; of how people Bahnhof) Fontane-Preis 2009 with directors Benno Besson,
© Markus Kirchgessner
Kleist-Preis 2004 Matthias Langhoff and Claus
make themselves comfortable in forty Das Zimmer (2010) International
Writer in Residence in Bergen-Enkheim 2003 Peymann, among others. She
© Tulya Madra
Sales: Denmark (Rosenkilde
years of history. His view of a homeland Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis 1999 appeared in several films and
& Bahnhof), Norway (Hovde &
that has always been fiction is incor- Brekke); previously published, Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 1991 has been writing plays, novels
ruptible. rights reverted: English and short stories since 1982.
world rights digital (Frisch Selected Backlist: She has received numerous
»Everything was like it once & Co.), Spanish world rights Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum (2021) »Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s work awards for her work, including
the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis
(Adriana Hidalgo), Czech
was. Everything was there. Republic (Archa), Macedonia
Die Brücke vom goldenen Horn (1998) Published opens up a both intellectual in 1991, the Kleist-Preis in
in the following languages: English (Serpent’s Tail),
Everything joined to form (Goten) Spanish (Alfaguara), Catalan (Proa), Russian (Olga
and poetic dialogue between 2004 and the Georg-Büchner-
an image. Now I saw it, the Morozova), French (Calmann-Lévy / Pauvert), different languages, cultures Preis in 2022. In 2017, she
became a member of the
Italian (Ponte alle Grazie), Dutch (De Geus), Polish and world views.«
centre of everything. Now I (Pogranicze), Turkish (İletişim), Greek (Armida)
Academy of Arts, Berlin. Emine
Jury of the Georg-Büchner-Preis 2022 Sevgi Özdamar lives in Berlin.
knew what I had to do.«Literary Fiction
Roger Van de Velde
Crackling Skulls
The rediscovery of the maverick of Flemish literature –
haunting observations through the eyes of an internee
Roger Van de Velde, born in Boom, Bel- Roger Van de Velde
gium, in 1925, was a journalist and au- Crackling Skulls
thor. At the age of twenty-one, he suf- (Original Dutch title: De
fered a gastric perforation after which knetterende schedels,
first published in 1969,
he was prescribed the highly addictive
latest edition in 2020 by
opioid Palfium. Due to his subsequent
Uitgeverij Vrijdag)
dependence and for the possession of
110 pages
forged prescription notes, he spent six Release of the German
years of his short life in psychiatric in- edition by Suhrkamp:
stitutions, where he wrote this volume Spring 2024
of stories about his fellow inmates. In
Abeele
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twenty laconic, funny and moving sto- International Sales:
Van den
OscarRafaela
ries he describes his »compagnons de English world rights
misère« with empathy and astuteness. (Snuggly Books)
Photo:
The stories were smuggled from the
©
institution by Van de Velde’s wife and Translation funding through
published in secret. Van de Velde died
»The king of the short story.« Flanders Literature
from an accidental overdose in 1970.
Dimitri Verhulst
Roger Van de Velde, born
Each story is dedicated to a patient: there in 1925, was a journalist at
»Penetrating and splendid, De Nieuwe Gazet. Due to his
is Jules Leroy, who kills his beloved cat
because it stole his weekly steak – which he
full of brilliant, somewhat addiction to Palfium, he was
loved even more, or »Scraps-and-tatters«,who harrowing images.« committed numerous times
from 1961 onwards and wrote
scampers through the institution naked, or NRC Handelsblad De knetterende schedels,
the newcomer, who bears a tattoo of the among other works, while in
ominous phrase »Margaritas ante porcos« »Top-flight prose written in a psychiatric institutions. In 1970,
on his lower arm and wants to cure van de smooth, sober style.« Cutting Edge he was discharged, received the
Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord and
Velde from his addiction to painkillers – one died from an overdose on the
of the rare moments in which the author terrace of an Antwerp café.
reveals insights into his own disorder.
Van de Velde’s language seems pleasantly
anachronistic (which was also true at the
time the book was written), he appears as
an urbane and eloquent narrator who has as
much interest in elegant turns of phrase as
in the fate of his comrades in suffering.Literary Fiction Literary Fiction
Robert Menasse Shortlisted
Christoph Hein
Enlargement for the
Austrian Book Prize Underneath the Dust of Time
2022
60.000 copies sold Coming-of-age in a divided city
Bruno-Kreisky-Preis for Political Writing 2022
2019 – membership negotiations between Robert Menasse The late 1950s in the divided Germany: as the Christoph Hein
the European Union and the Western Balkan Enlargement son of a pastor, 14-year-old Daniel is barred Underneath the Dust of
countries have come to a standstill; France Novel from taking the Abitur, the secondary school Time
and the Netherlands have put in a veto. (Original title: Die leaving examination, in his East German Novel
Erweiterung. Roman) (Original title: Unterm
This has toppled many a political career, hometown and so he moves to West Berlin
653 pages Staub der Zeit. Roman)
including the one of Albania’s charismatic just before the Berlin Wall is built. Together
Clothbound approx. 200 pages
and unconventional Prime Minister, who with his roommates at the boarding house,
Release: October 2022 Clothbound
won his last election with the promise of all of whom are from the GDR like him, he Release: April 2022
leading Albania into the EU. But what to do International Sales: explores the city: as newsboys, they discover
when the political base is crumbling? Fate France (Verdier), Italy the pubs and bars, experience Bill Haley,
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Vasa, poet laureate, has an idea: The Prime (Sellerio), Netherlands who whips the Sportpalast into a frenzy, as
German Audiobook
Minister must take on the role of the great well as the revivalist Billy Graham. But what
(Arbeiderspers), Albania (DAV)
national hero Skanderbeg, who defended his Daniel loves most of all is working on his
(Dudaj); Domestic Rights
country against the Ottomans in the 15th plays and soon he forms his first connections
Sales: German Audio-
century and who is a symbol for the unity in Berlin’s theatre scene ... Christoph Hein, born in
of all Albanians. For the one who rallies the book (Hörverlag)
1944, lives in Berlin. He is
Albanians of the Kosovo, North Macedonia, Selected for New Books in the author of novels, novellas,
Montenegro, Serbia and even the Albanian German – translation funding Christoph Hein tells the story of a youth short stories, plays, essays
communities in southern Italy, Germany and guaranteed for the English in the shadow of the building of the Wall and children’s books. His
language and makes the Berlin of those years come most recent novels were on
Turkey under one cause, will turn Albania the Spiegel bestseller list
into Greater Albania and into a major to life – rich in contemporary history, la-
Robert Menasse was born for weeks. His most recent
European power. In order to do so, he should Menasse aims once again at the great in Vienna, where he currently
conic and powerful. awards include the 2019 Prix
wear Skanderbeg’s helmet with the bizarre questions: how can people living in resides again, in 1954. du Meilleur livre étranger,
very different political systems, shaped the 2019 Samuel Bogumił
goat’s head, that is currently displayed in a
Selected Backlist: Linde Prize and the 2017
museum in Vienna. Unfortunately, it’s too by different cultural surroundings and
Die Hauptstadt (2017) Grimmelshausen Prize.
small for the Prime Minister, which is why histories, find a common ground and
an ornamental blacksmith from Tirana is form a union or alliance? Do all so called
International Sales: USA »At the time when East and West
Selected Backlist:
tasked with recreating it. But before he Western societies in the 21st century
& Canada (W.W.Norton/
Liveright), UK & Commonwealth
were more than just two cardinal
can fix the issue, both helmets disappear really share the often-invoked common (MacLehose Press), Spanish points, bothersome students Guldenberg (2021)
International Sales: France
simultaneously and a furious international values? In a kaleidoscope made of more world rights (Seix Barral), or the children of bothersome (Métailié); Domestic Rights
hunt starts, involving members from Europol than a dozen voices, he interweaves fas- Chinese simplex rights (People’s parents were sometimes barred Sales: German Audiobook
Literature Publishing House),
as well as members from the Albanian cinating individual stories with the his- Chinese complex rights (Linking),
from taking the Abitur in East (DAV)
Germany. An alternative at a
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mafia, and some others who wish to remain tory of Europe of the last century – plac- Russia (Text), Portuguese rights
Glückskind mit Vater (2016)
unrecognized. ing it in a global perspective. The result (Dom Quixote), Arabic world secondary school in West Berlin International Sales: Arabic
is a unique narrative, a haunting novel. rights (AFAQ), France (Verdier),
Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands
was found for them with great world rights (Sefsafa), France
Meanwhile, politics go on and Albania’s
(Arbeiderspers), Denmark trickery. The two ideologies now (Métailié), Italy (e/o), Denmark
Prime Minister invites the heads of the (Vandkunsten), Sweden (Weyler), clashed at boarding school, (Gyldendal), Bulgaria (Atlantis),
Estonia (Eesti Raamax);
governments of the Balkan countries, the Poland (Noir sur Blanc), Czech in the classroom and in the
foreign ministers of the EU countries as »Both a thought-provoking Domestic Rights Sales: German
analysis of the ongoing challenges
Republic (Plus), Hungary
cinemas. That, and the absurdity Audiobook (DAV), German
well as the entirety of the EU delegates (Geopen), Bulgaria (Lege Artis),
to gather on the SS Skanderbeg, a large faced by the European project, Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Croatia of this chapter of history, is what Entire Radio Reading (MDR)
Albanian cruise ship on its maiden voyage. as well as a lively and humorous (Fraktura), Serbia (Arhipelag), this novel talks about.«
take on the political dimensions
Slovenia (Cankarjeva založba), Wenzel, Singer-Songwriter
What happens during this unofficial Balkans Turkey (Everest), Greece
Summit, is the kind of stuff dreams are made of human lives.« (Patakis), Georgia (Intelekti),
of – or rather nightmares? Jury recommendation, New Books in German Armenia (Antares), India/Hindi
(Saar Sansaar); Domestic Rights
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(Büchergilde Gutenberg)Literary Fiction Essay
Maxim Znak Daria Serenko
Zecameron Girls and Institutions / I Wish Ashes
100 scenes from the everyday life of a political prisoner for My House
A challenging read that tells of the terror the Russian regime exerts on Ukraine from within
In a world shrunk down to the size of a Maxim Znak The angry, shocking book by a prominent Daria Serenko
prison cell, every detail becomes important: Zecameron figure of the feminist resistance against Girls and Institutions /
the cockroach doing its job, the mousetrap Stories from Prison the Russian regime I Wish Ashes for My
that can be used to kill time, the strange (Original Russian title: House
Зекамерон, published In November 2021, Daria Serenko published (Original Russian titles:
rhythms of the collective snoring heard by
in 2022 by Vremja, her debut work Girls and Institutions Девочки и институции,
the insomniac.
Moscow) (Девочки и институции, No Kidding published in 2021 by No
Translated German title: Kidding Press / желаю
Maxim Znak, a brilliant lawyer and Press 2021), which caused a great stir and
Zekamerone. Geschichten пепла своему дому,
prominent member of the Belarusian in which Serenko in a laconic, sometimes
aus dem Gefängnis unpublished manuscript)
opposition movement, was arrested in funny narrative gives voice to a collective
approx. 150 pages Translated German titles:
autumn 2020 and sentenced to ten years Paperback experience that countless women in Russia’s Mädchen und Institutionen /
in prison in September 2021. In his Release of the German libraries, museums, and other cultural Ich wünsche meinem Haus
Zecameron (from »zek«, the Russian ac- edition by Suhrkamp: institutions make on a daily basis: working Asche; to be published
ronym for prisoner), which he wrote dur- October 2022 below capacity, fulfilling nonsensical in one volume under
© Tatyana Yegorova
ing his first year in prison, he proves to tasks, absurd structures and hierarchies, the title »Mädchen und
be a gifted writer – pointedly, ironically International Sales: UK sexual harassment in the workplace, the Institutionen«
and with astonishing humour, he tells virulent misogyny of macho superiors, approx. 150 pages
(Scotland Street Press),
of his new everyday life in one hundred the internalized misogyny of the »girls« Release of the German
Sweden (Ersatz) edition by Suhrkamp:
»mini stories«. His stories bear witness themselves, but also solidarity and support.
Autumn 2023
to resistance and self-assertion, to going Maxim Znak, born in 1981,
After she was arrested in February 2022, violence and puts the horror of war, the Clothbound
mad quietly and loudly. is a lawyer and leading
member of the opposition Serenko began working on a new text in horror of the women who live through
movement in Belarus. He is jail: I Wish Ashes for My House (Я желаю it, into poetic, often expressive, drastic, International Sales for
also a member of the board пепла своему дому) started as an exami- sometimes disturbing images that are, I Wish Ashes for My
of the Coordination Council nation of her own activism and has since despite their acute topicality, character- House: Sweden (Ersatz)
that advocated for a peaceful ised by a fundamental validity.
developed into something much greater.
transfer of power during
the mass protests against
In it, Serenko describes her experience Daria Serenko, born in 1993,
of imprisonment in short, unexpectedly This volume consists of two parts, Girls is a Russian feminist poet,
the fraudulent presidential
election in Belarus. Since original images: the dreariness of every- and Institutions and I Wish Ashes for political activist, public artist
and founding member of the
day life, the infringement on one’s body My House. Suhrkamp Verlag represents
»The fact that this book exists September 9, 2020, Znak
has been imprisoned in international rights only on the second
Feminist Anti-War Resistance,
could be called a miracle. exerted by those in power, an individual which was formed in protest of
Minsk; he wrote his stories
yet at the same time a collective experi- part, I Wish Ashes for My House. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Because the stories could in a notebook that made it
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ence that she shares with thousands of She is also the co-founder
be smuggled outside … The true outside the prison walls.
people in Russia who have protested
of »Femdacha«, a safe space
sensation, however, is the mental against the war. She also examines the
for queer activists, and fights
achievement the prisoner Maxim possibilities of activism radically and
for an open, tolerant society.
In February 2022, she was
Znak was capable of. self-critically and keeps circling ques- »Everybody in Russia who detained for 15 days for a
In his situation, which could tions of failure, guilt, shame, and the re- social media post advocating
opposes the invasion is fighting
really be called hopeless, he sponsibility that the Russian society and tactical voting that contained
at the cost of their lives and their
possesses the internal freedom to each of its members carries. This text
campaign symbols associated
freedom for a future without war with Alexei Navalny’s Anti-
create literature.« focuses on the violence that has infixed
Cornelia Geissler, Berliner Zeitung itself in her country’s society for many and dictatorship.« Corruption Foundation. She
was released from jail on
years with increasing force. In short vi- Daria Serenko in an interview with the New February 24, 2022, and has
gnettes, in lists, sequences, poems, simu- York Review on October 22, 2022 since left Russia.
lated interviews, Serenko runs through
all possible forms and consequences ofSie können auch lesen
