Petros Markaris Odysseus’ Death

Highly topical yet timeless: stories about displaced and homeless persons in Greece, Turkey and Germany.

Including two crime stories featuring Kostas Charitos.

Rights sold:
Spanish (Tusquets)
Catalan (Tusquets)
Italian (La nave di Teseo)

Petros Markaris’ 80th birthday on 1 January 2017.

Viktorija Tokarjewa Even Bitches Deserve Pity

New stories from the Grande Dame of Russian narrative.

»As concentrated as Chekhov. Great art painted with a light hand, superb.«
Harald Ries / Westfalenpost, Hagen

»Viktoriya Tokareva’s short stories are X-rays of the soul.«
Literaturnaya Gazeta, Moscow

Otto Jägersberg The Croupier’s Wife

New prose by Otto Jägersberg.

Stories and thoughts full of wayward humour.

Otto Jägersberg’s diverse prose is both delightfully simple and lustfully complex.

Astrid Rosenfeld Adam's Legacy
›Jean Monnet Prize of Young Europeans‹

The French translation of Astrid Rosenfeld's debut, Adam's Legacy, published by Gallimard, was awarded the ›Jean Monnet Prize of Young Europeans 2016‹. The award ceremony was held at the literary festival Cognac in November 2016.

The award was created by the students of the Jean Monnet Secondary School in Cognac in partnership with the region Poitou-Charentes and the head of the Academy of Poitiers. Existing since 2006, it aims to promote contemporary European literature and its authors while encouraging secondary school students to discover them.

Rights sold:
Italian (Mondadori)
Spanish (Lumen)
French (Gallimard)
Dutch (De Bezige Bij)
Swedish (Thorén & Lindskog)
Norwegian (Cappelen Damm)
Polish (Muza)
Serbian (Laguna)
Slovenian (Mladinska knjiga)
Korean (Dasan)

Martin Suter Cheers

»Not just fabulous satire. Suter is a first-class sociologist of everyday life.«
Joachim Scholl/ Financial Times Deutschland, Hamburg

F.K. Waechter We Can Do So Many Things Together

A marvellous book about friendship. With cardboard cut-out activities for those tedious hours without your friends.

Rights sold:
Italian (Babalibri)
Chinese/CN (21st Century)
Korean (Borim)

Tomi Ungerer Why Am I Not You?

Children’s questions about the world and everything in it, answered by Tomi Ungerer.

The columns from PHILOSOPHIE magazine first published in book form – with 16 brand new texts.

Rights sold:
Italian (Feltrinelli)

Tomi Ungerer’s 85th birthday on 28 November 2016.

Benedict Wells awarded

»A difficult childhood is like an invisible enemy: you never know when it will come for you.«

The German independent book sellers elected Benedict Wells' fourth novel On the End of Loneliness as their ›Favourite Book 2016‹.

Furthermore the novel has been awarded the ›Literary Prize by the Ravensburger Verlag Foundation‹. The prize comes with an honorarium of 12,000 euros. The award ceremony was held in November 2016.
From the jury’s statement: »Touchingly narrated, linguistically excellent […] A novel not easily forgotten.«

Also the German speaking readers are delighted by the book and awarded it the bronze ›Favourite New Novel 2016‹ award.

On the End of Loneliness was published in March 2016 and spent 40 weeks on the Spiegel Bestseller list..

The novel has now sold more than 150‘000 hardcover copies.

Rights sold:
English/world (Hodder)
Spanish (Malpaso)
Italian (Salani)
French (Slatkine)
Swedish (Thorén & Lindskog)
Dutch (Meulenhoff)
Danish (Lindhardt & Ringhof)
Russian (Azbooka-Atticus)
Polish (Muza)
Hungarian (Geopen)
Romanian (Polirom)
Czech (Plus)
Bulgarian (Colibri)
Lithuanian (Gelmes)
Serbian (Laguna)
Albanian (Dudaj)
Macedonian (Tri)
Slovakian (Plus)
Hebrew (Hakibbutz Hameuhad)
Ukrainian (Hemiro)
Chinese/CN (China South Booky Culture Media)

English sample translation available.

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