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We congratulate our author Nino Haratischwili on the Schiller Memorial Prize 2019!

The Schiller Memorial Prize (German: »Schiller-Gedächtnispreis«) is a literature prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg. It is endowed with 25,000 euros and has been awarded since 1955 on Friedrich Schiller's birthday, 10 November. The prize acknowledges outstanding work in the field of German literature or intellectual history, for single works or collected works.
Former award winners are e.g. Max Frisch, Golo Mann, Christa Wolf, Martin Walser, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Handke etc.

The prize ceremony will take place 14th November 2019 in Stuttgart.

Nino Haratischwili's great family saga »The Eighth Life (For Brilka)« has become an international bestseller and is translated into 13 languages, the English edition is going to be released in November 2019 by Scribe in Great Britain and Australia.

On top of that, we are excited to share with you some really great news: The Norwegian rights have been sold to Aschehoug – hence, Aschehoug is the first Scandinavian publishing house that is going to translate Haratischwili's splendid work!

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Futhermore, we are more than happy to inform you that the French rights of the latest novel by this outstanding author, »The Cat And The General«, sold to seven countries so far, has been acquired by Éditions Belfond.

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Two new novels by two strong, intelligent and outstanding woman writers from Austria are going to be the hightlights of our new literary program in fall 2019 – we happily invite you to discover the new novels by Mareike Fallwickl and Susanne Gregor!

Julia Rothenburg is awarded the one-year scholarship for literature of the German federal state Baden-Wuerttemberg for her debut novel «Koslik ist krank / Koslik Is Ill«

We happily invite you to have a look into our brand-new rights catalog!

Two fantastic new novels by Demian Lienhard and Julia Rothenburg

The debut novel »Waiting For The Snow« by Karoline Menge, published 31st August 2018, is awarded the prestigious Ulla Hahn Prize For Literary Debut 2018! We are thrilled by this fantastic news, congratulate the author and we are very proud to represent the world rights.

Nino Haratischwili's novel »The Cat And The General« has been selected for the shortlist for the German Book Prize 2018! We are overwhelmed and congratulate the author! The winner will be announced on 8th October right before the Frankfurt Book Fair opens its doors.

Shortlist German Book Prize 2018 – Jury evaluation:

»Every sentence here attests to the joy of storytelling. From the first page, the reader is right in the middle of this novel of guilt and atonement, feverishly following the general’s plan for revenge. He wants to atone for a crime in which he himself participated during the Chechen war. Narrative threads full of questions run below the novel’s thriller-like surface: What effect does the ›toxic past‹ have on the present? Are wars never over? Why does the Georgian family living in Germany long for home, even though life there was hell? The characters – all of them ›stuck between times and worlds‹ – are brimming with vitality, and everything is told with powerful imagery and sensuousness: Great cinema!«

Mareike Fallwickl's debut novel »Dark Green Almost Black« is among the ten novels selected for shortlist of the Austrian Book Prize 2018

The new novel by the best selling author Nino Haratischwili has been selected for the longlist of the German Book Prize 2018!

On August 31st, Nino Haratischwili's long-awaited new novel »The Cat and the General« will be released – the audio book is going to be published on 4 September by Hörbuch Hamburg. For those who do not want to wait that long: the reading is available as a serial stream and broadcasted by the »ARD Radiofestival« – click here to hear the latest sequel.

»Old Girls« is the third part of a trilogy, in 2015 the FVA published her debut »Everything Is Now«, followed by the highly acclaimed and  prize-winning novel »Walter Nowak Won't Get Up« in 2017. The Jury praised her novel project as a successful mixture of distance and warm-heartedness. The prize giving ceremony will take place 28 August 2018 in Frankfurt on the Main.