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Italian rights go to Sellerio and French rights to Phébus for Martin Suter's Melody
»Love is the most important thing in life.«
- Martin Suter
#1 Spiegel Bestseller
#1 Swiss Bestseller
Rights sold:
French (Phébus)
Italian (Sellerio)
Endorsed by New Books in German: »This wonderfully romantic story is a captivating read, as well as an extended meditation on truth, memory, and the nature and purpose of storytelling.« read their full review here: Melody – New Books in German
»With his brilliantly smooth narrative style, Martin Suter reaches people all over the world.« Rose-Maria Gropp / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Martin Suter's Melody is an entertainingly written, easy-to-read novel with a clear cast of characters, a few voltes and pirouettes in the text, served up with a good dose of humour.« Annemarie Stoltenberg / NDR Kultur, Hamburg
»In this novel, at least, nothing is what it pretends to be. That makes it appealing to the end.« Thomas Bucheli / NZZ, Zurich
»Melody is a declaration of love to the art of deception that could hardly be more lucid.« Gerhard Matzig / Süddeutsche Zeitung
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»›You can pay for the second wedding yourself‹, Mum says.«
She’s mid-twenties, just finished with her studies, and divorced practically as soon as she’s married. What do you do when your first great love crashes and burns?
The narrator of Esther Schüttpelz’ debut novel is still looking: for the reason why they split up; for a plan for the future; for friendship and intimacy and intoxication and forgetting.
Sharp-witted, vulnerable and hilarious, she tells the story of the year after and in-between.
»What draws the reader into her trains of thought is her nonchalant and smart narrative tone.« Sabine Schereck / tip, Berlin
English sample translation available
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French rights for Stefanie vor Schulte's Snakes in the Garden sold to Héloïse d'Ormesson
»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
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Press for Sasha Filipenko's Kremulator
»Sasha Filipenko has mastered the art of drastic change. From comedy to cruel tragedy, from irony to poetry, from metaphorical play to documentary prose.« Hans von Trotha / Deutschlandfunk, Cologne
»His interrogation novel reads like a duel - with terse syntax, quick repartee and razor-sharp humour. And it is from this condensation that his prose draws its great oppressive power.« Lena Bopp / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Kremulator by Sasha Filipenko is permeated by a coldness that goes to the core. Almost as if in passing, the book also delivers an inky black commentary on Russia today.« Peter Henning / NDR Kultur, Hanover
Rights currently sold:
French (Noir sur Blanc)
Russian (Vremya)
Swedish (Ersatz)
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Press for Michael Bergmann's Mameleben
Spiegel Bestseller
Magnificent and infuriating, loving and stifling, self-sacrificing yet interfering – Michel Bergmann loves his mother Charlotte, and sometimes he can’t stand her.
In this unvarnished book, he tells the story of a strong, obstinate woman who was driven out of Germany, lost nearly her entire family, and was ultimately happily reunited with her future husband, yet too often had to face her troubles alone.
»With an artistically daring balance of natural empathy and ironic distance, he contours a psychologically pungent biopic in rhapsodic style.« - Hans-Dietrich Grünefeld / Buchkultur, Wien
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LONG LIVE TOMI UNGERER at Bologna Book Fair 2023
Martin Salisbury was joined by artists Beatrice Alemagna and Axel Scheffler for a masterclass about Tomi Ungerer’s influence on their work and the world of contemporary children’s books. The room was packed with young illustrators who also left beautiful sketches on the #rememberingTomi artist’s wall.
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US/UK editions of Donna Leon's memoir Wandering Through Life
We love the cover of Donna Leon's memoir Wandering Through Life, to be published in the US by Grove/Atlantic and in the UK by Heinemann in autumn 2023.
Rights sold:
Catalan (Edicions 62)
English/UK (William Heinemann)
English/USA (Grove /Atlantic)
French (Calmann-Lévy)
Polish (Noir sur Blanc)
Spanish/world (Seix Barral)
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The English Translation by Reuben Woolley, published in April by MacLehose in the UK is on the longlist, together with 12 other titles. The shortlist will be announced on 18 April, and the prize announced on 23 May.
Rights currently sold:
English/world (MacLehose)
French (Liana Levi)
Italian (Keller)
Polish (Noir sur Blanc)
Russian original (Folio)
Ukrainian (Folio)
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The Italian translation of Andrey Kurkov's Samson and Nadezhda by Claudia Zonghetti, published by Marsilio as L'orecchio di Kiev is nominated together with four other titles. The prize will be awarded on Sunday 21. May at the Turin book fair.
Rights currently sold:
Croatian (Božicevic)
English/UK (MacLehose)
English/US (Harper Via)
French (Liana Levi)
Greek (Kastaniotis)
Italian (Marsilio)
Polish (Noir sur Blanc)
Portuguese/PT (Porto)
Romanian (Paralela 45)
Spanish/world (Alfaguara)
Turkish (Siren)
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Congratulations to Joachim B. Schmidt for receiving the ›Grisons Prize for Literature‹ for Tell. »›The exciting and fast-paced story is smart and brilliantly told.«, the jury praises.
Awards
2023 ›Grisons Prize for Literature‹ for Tell
2022 Tell was chosen the favourite book of Swiss Booksellers
#1 Swiss Bestseller
Spiegel Bestseller
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Italian rights for János Székely’s A Night that Began 700 Years Ago sold to Adelphi
One of the most extraordinary attic discoveries in all of literature. A sensation! An impressive novel is brought to light, seventy years after it was first written.
The author János Székely was a novelist, Hollywood screenwriter and ›Oscar‹-winner. His novel Temptation was one of the most successful rediscoveries of the last decade.
With an afterword by Sacha Batthyany.
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Italian rights for Shelly Kupferberg's Isidor sold to Keller Editore
Rights currently sold:
French (Belfond)
Italian (Keller)
#9 Spiegel bestseller
»Kupferberg succeeds in creating a sensitively written portrait of life during this time of horror.« - Bernd Noack / NZZ, Zurich
»A heartbreaking book.« - Julia Voss/ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
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Norwegian rights for Helme Heine's The Adventurers sold to Forteller Forlaget
Rights sold:
Korean (Moonji Publishing)
Norwegian (Forteller Forlaget)
»A beautiful and very humorous picture book.« Margarete v. Schwarzkopf / Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg
»Mr. Heine's sequel, Friends Go Adventuring, is a delight, richly infused with genial humor and sophisticated whimsy.« Ellen Pall / The New York Times
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