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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.

The Dutch translation rights for the novel »Dark Green Almost Black« by Mareike Fallwickl have been sold to Nieuw Amsterdam! The thrilling debut about a toxic friendship has been pushed by literary bloggers and booksellers (discover the hype on Instagram #dunkelgrünfastschwarz) so that the first edition was out of stock right after the publication. Now we are looking forward to the Dutch edition and are proud to represent the world translation rights.

We are thrilled to start the new season with three literary highlights:

On 29th of June we are going to publish the new novel by Bodo Kirchhoff: »Dusk and Turmoil. A Novel of the Early Years«. It is his first autobiographical novel about his childhood and youth and the beginning of his writing. Click here for more information.

The 31th of August is the release date of the much-anticipated new novel by Nino Haratischwili, the author of the international bestseller »The Eighth Life (For Brilka)«. Her new masterpiece is called »The Cat and The General«, our top title of the autumn. Click here for more information.

With the debut novel »Waiting for the Snow« by Karoline Menge we have discoverd an outstanding, strong and original new voice of the contemporary German literature. Click here for more information.