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English rights for Joachim B. Schmidt's Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain sold to Bitter Lemon
Bitter Lemon join Icelandic publisher Forlagið in acquring translation rights before our German publishing date in September 2023.
»An incredibly vivid sense of place, and a gifted storyteller.«
Welt am Sonntag, Berlin
»Schmidt reveals himself to be an incredibly empathetic and skilled narrator with a strong sense for light humour.«
Hanspeter Eggenberger / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich
Rights currently sold:
English/world (Bitter Lemon)
Icelandic (Forlagið)
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Greek rights for Stefanie vor Schulte's Boy with a Black Rooster sold to Kapsimi
»With her magical sentences, Stefanie vor Schulte draws the reader into an ever more surreal world.«
Doris Emonts / Aachener Zeitung, Aachen
»And this is the fascinating thing about this book: How do people stay alive? Through us thinking about and remembering them.«
Margarete von Schwarzkopf / NDR 1 Niedersachsen, Hanover
»Comforting, subtle and endearingly crazy.«
Petra Schulte / emotion, Hamburg
Rights currently sold:
English/world (Indigo Press)
French (Héloïse d'Ormesson)
Greek (Kapsimi)
Italian (Mondadori)
Russian (Foliant)
Serbian (Plato)
Spanish/world (Planeta MX)
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Spanish rights for Andrey Kurkov's Jimi Hendrix live in Lviv sold to Alfaguara
»Longlisted for the 2023 ›International Booker‹ prize, the newly translated novel by Ukraine’s leading author is, in today’s context, poignantly playful and ebullient.«
Luke Harding, The Guardian, London
Rights currently sold:
English/world (MacLehose)
French (Liana Levi)
Italian (Keller)
Polish (Noir sur Blanc)
Russian original (Folio)
Spanish/world (Alfaguara)
Ukrainian (Folio)
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Wolkenbruch finds millions of international viewers on Netflix
The Swiss film adaptation of Thomas Meyer's novel Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse, which enjoyed commercial and critical success upon release, is now attracting a large international audience on Netflix.
It's especially popular in the US and Brazil under the titles The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch and O Despertar de Motti, respectively.
All foreign language editions can be found here.
»Language itself becomes an event in this novel, as it should in all good literature. It is lightness in writing.«
Thomas Widmer / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich
»Thomas Meyer’s novel is an effervescent, dizzying and bold read, like non-kosher champagne.«
Alexandra Stäheli / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Rights currently sold:
Russian (Knizhniki)
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Italian and French rights for Tomi Unger's Mr Tall and Mr Small sold to Lupo Guido and to Ecole des Loisirs
Originally published in 1965, now to be published in German for the first time in November 2023, a major rediscovery and an endearing story of two animal friends – with significant differences.
Rights sold:
French (École des Loisirs)
Italian (Lupo Guido)
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Hebrew rights for Joachim B. Schmidt's Kalmann sold to Keter
Rights currently sold:
Arabic (Al-Arabi)
Czech (Prostor)
English/world (Bitter Lemon)
French (Gallimard)
Greek (Metaichmio)
Hebrew (Keter)
Icelandic (Forlagið)
Italian (SEM Libri)
Persian (Nam Books)
Slovak (Literárna bašta)
Spanish/world (Gatopardo)
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Greek rights for Lukas Hartmann's Into the Unknown sold to Kapsimi
#1 Swiss bestseller
»Hartmann tells of departures into the unknown, of transformations of the world and the self.«
Alexander Kluy / Der Standard, Vienna
Rights currently sold:
Greek (Kapsimi)
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Italian rights for All the Lost Things by Lukas Hartmann with illustrations by Tatjana Hauptmann sold to Iperborea
»Literally a dream of a story, thoughtfully told, about the independent life of things and the secret meaning of searching.«
Die Welt, Berlin
Rights currently sold:
Italian (Iperborea)
Chinese/CN (Ginkgo)
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Italian rights for Such a Long Nose by Lukas Hartmann sold to Iperborea
1995 ›Swiss Youth Novel of the Year‹
»Lukas Hartmann's ability to see the world through a child's eyes is outstanding.«
Hits for Kids, Gustavsburg
Rights currently sold:
Italian (Iperborea)
Latvian (Janis Roze)
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The 100 Best Children's Books of all Time, a survey by the BBC
The selection by international industry experts from illustrators to publishers to translators is inspiring and ranges from picture books to young adult novels - you can find the full list here.
Of course, we were excited to learn that Tomi Ungerer’s The Three Robbers and No Kiss for Mother are on places 30 and 79, respectively. Clearly, Tomi’s works are classics which have inspired many generations and continue to delight and fascinate new readers across the globe.
»No one, I dare say, no one was as original. Tomi influenced everybody.«
Maurice Sendak
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