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Diogenes
Foreign Rights List — Autumn 2022
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Charles Lewinsky Sein Sohn
Charles
Charles Lewinsky
Lewinsky
His Son
Sein Sohn
Roman · Diogenes
FICTION
»Kurkow distils a happy desperation, a form of surreal
pantheism that places him geographically, like his country,
Andrej Kurkow
between Russian romanticism and Scandinavian fatalism, Grey Bees
between Chekhov and Paasilinna, Gogol and Hamsun.«
By the author of Death and the Penguin
Frédéric Beigbeder / Le Figaro, Paris
»In spare prose, Ukraine's most famous
novelist unsparingly examines the inhuman
confusions of our modern times
Andrej Kurkow Graue Bienen
and the longing of the warm-hearted
everyman that is Sergeyich
for the rationality of the natural world.«
John Thornhill / Financial Times, London
»This time, the Ukrainian author of Death
and the Penguin, known for his brilliantly
dark humour, has written a modern-day
French edition by Liana Levi odyssey, with a return that is
ambiguously hopeful.« Andrej
Romanian edition by Paralela 45 US edition by Deep Vellum
India Lewis / The Arts Desk, London
Kurkow
Rights sold:
Graue Bienen
Chinese/CN (Beijing Imaginist)
»Kurkow tells the oppressive
»In his book, the writer Croatian (Božičević)
story of the everyday
paints the ›grey zone‹ Danish (Mr. East)
of war in Eastern Ukraine
on the frontline with great Dutch (Prometheus)
with a quiet and poetic
humanity.« English/UK (MacLehose) Roman · Diogenes
language.«
Isabelle Mandraud / Le Monde, Paris English/US (Deep Vellum)
Céline Graf / Der Bund, Berne
Estonian (Tänapäev)
French (Liana Levi)
Greek (Kastaniotis) Novel
Hungarian (Művelt Nép) 448 pages, 2019
UK edition by MacLehose Italian (Keller)
Japanese (Sayusha)
Mongolian (Tagtaa)
Norwegian (Cappelen Damm)
Persian (Ofoq) World rights are handled
Polish (Noir sur Blanc) by Diogenes except Russian and Ukrainian.
Romanian (Paralela 45) Film rights are available.
Russian original publisher: Folio
Spanish/world (Alfaguara)
Swedish (Natur och Kultur)
Ukrainian (Folio)
Persian edition by Ofoq Greek edition by Kastaniotis
Danish edition by Mr. East Andrej Kurkow’s books have been published in 39 languages.
FICTION
»A most impressive debut.«
Daniel Arnet / SonntagsZeitung, Zurich
Solomonica de Winter
Natural Law
50'000 copies sold The rise and fall of a fearless heroine. In a
world without written records, one woman
makes it her mission to find the last
Solomonica remaining books on Earth.
de Winter
Die Geschichte The long-awaited new book by the excep-
von Blue Bestseller tionally talented and Spiegel-bestselling
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author Solomonica de Winter: The start of a
trilogy and an epic novel, featuring an
Over the Rainbow ingenious maverick.
Novel, 2014
In the New World, people live according to
the Natural Law. The world as we know it
does no longer exist and the remaining
»Over the Rainbow is incredibly »I have read Over the Rainbow population is now divided into four tribes.
cool, pure and solidly told stylistically with great admiration.« Gaia Marinos is an outcast living in the
speaking. It is barely imaginable Ronald Ockhuysen / Het Parool, Amsterdam
woods. When she gets captured by one of
that this was written by a sixteen
year old.« the tribes, she is saved only by her ability
»Smashing novel. Read this!« to read. Yet the tribe members have a plan
Melina Savvidou / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Marie Claire, Amsterdam for her. Gaia’s mission to track down the
»Over the Rainbow transcends
last remaining books on Earth is jeopard-
the young adult novel. For the sixteen »The debut novel by the sixteen ised, and she has to decide: how far is she
year old that she is, [Solomonica year old Solomonica de Winter stands willing to go?
de Winter] is remarkably experienced. out. Not only because of the double Novel
She writes cinematic and evocative, murder that is committed in it or the 496 pages, October 2022
and uses beautiful metaphors.« writer’s ancestry, but mostly because
of its literary quality.«
Annick Vandorpe / De Morgen, Amsterdam
Gabriele Flossmann /Illustrierte Neue Welt, Vienna »And all that began, began in the wild,
lest you wish to never know.«
Solomonica de Winter World rights are handled by Diogenes.
Film rights are available.
Solomonica de Winter’s books
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have been published in 4 languages.
solomonica de winter was born in Bloemendaal near Amsterdam
in 1997. After several years in Los Angeles, she is now living back with
her family in Bloemendaal, where she attended the International School.
A well-travelled cosmopolitan, she studied in Israel, Italy and the USA.
Her debut, Over the Rainbow, received overwhelming acclaim from the
press. Solomonica de Winter writes in English.
FICTION
»A great rhythm, beautiful sentences, atmosphere:
a joyful cultural experience.« Stefanie vor Schulte
Thomas Andre / Hamburger Abendblatt Snakes in the Garden
Stefanie vor Schulte Junge mit schwarzem Hahn
›Mara Cassens Prize‹ 2021 (winner) Rights sold: Stefanie vor Schulte’s new novel, following
›Das Debüt‹ prize 2021 (shortlisted) French (Héloïse d'Ormesson) her prize-winning debut and booksellers`
favourite Boy with a Black Rooster: A book
Stefanie vor Schulte Schlangen im Garten
›Rauris Prize of Literature‹ Italian (Mondadori)
2022 (shortlisted) Serbian (Plato) about compassion and being there for
Stefanie Spanish/MX (Seix Barral)
vor Schulte other people – and about how our world
›Festival du premier roman‹
Chambéry 2022 (nominated)
Junge mit
schwarzem Hahn
often lets us down on that score.
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About how we all stumble sometimes but
are lifted up by others. A story of hope
Boy with a Black Rooster and tenacity.
Novel, 2021
A mother dies, and her family are accused
of wallowing in their grief. Life must go on,
»Stefanie vor Schulte’s debut novel, »Stefanie vor Schulte's novel is full
say the Mohns’ neighbours, and the
Boy with Black Rooster, is an engrossing of poetic power and with a language
and enchanting fairy tale for adults, characterized by images.« Mourning Bureau agrees. But they don't
Stefanie
offering readers some ideal (post-)
pandemic escapism.«
HR Kultur, Frankfurt want to move on – not her partner Adam.
Nor Linne, furious with the world. Nor
vor Schulte
New Books in German, London
»And – this is important –
Steve, a student who has come back home. Schlangen
she has proven that for this there Nor Micha, the youngest. They want to im Garten
»A ray of light in gloomy times, exists a language filled with poetry, hold onto Johanne – not just in their own Roman · Diogenes
beautifully narrated and extraordinarily wit and courage.« memories, but through countless stories
touching.« Rose-Maria Gropp / Frankfurter Allgemeine that may not be entirely true to life …
Dagmar Kaindl / Buchkultur, Vienna Zeitung, Frankfurt
Novel
»Stefanie vor Schulte has presented »Stefanie vor Schulte’s novel 240 pages, September 2022
an enigmatic debut of peculiar demonstrates that it takes the wisdom
»Summer in the city is surprising
beauty.« of a child to understand cruelty.«
yet fundamentally to be expected.
Hannah Küppers / Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden
Meike Schnitzler / Brigitte, Hamburg Rather like death.«
Stefanie vor Schulte World rights are handled by Diogenes.
Film rights are available.
Stefanie vor Schulte’s books
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have been published in 5 languages.
stefanie vor schulte, born in Hanover in 1974, studied Theatre
and Costume Design. She lives in Marburg with her husband and four
children. Her first novel Boy with a Black Rooster was awarded the 2021
›Mara Cassens Prize‹ for the best German-language debut.
FICTION
»A humourist who dips his pen in spite,
with Gogol’s blessing.« Andrej Kurkow
L’Express, Paris Samson and Nadezhda
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• Ein Freund des Verblichenen
Andrej By the author of Death and the Penguin and
Andrej Kurkow
Kurkow
Picknick
Andrej
Kurkow
Andrej
Kurkow
Pinguine
frieren nicht Andrej Grey Bees.
auf dem Eis Petrowitsch Ein Freund Kurkow
Andrej Kurkow Samson und Nadjeschda
des Die letzte Liebe
The first book in a new crime series, humor-
Andrej Kurkow
Verblichenen des Präsidenten
Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes
ous and heartfelt.
Death and the The Good Angel A Matter of Penguin Lost The President’s
Penguin of Death Death and Life Novel, 2003 Last Love Kyiv, 1919. Samson investigates a puzzling
Novel, 1999 Novel, 2000 Novel, 2001 Novel, 2005 case of theft and murder – and loses his
heart to a young comrade.
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Andrej Kurkow Graue Bienen
Soviet Ukraine in the early years – an era of
danger and turmoil, when the rules are
Andrej
Kurkow
changing on a daily basis.
• Herbstfeuer
Andrej Kurkow Andrej Kurkow Graue Bienen
Andrej Andrej Kurkow Der Gärtner
Der Milchmann von Otschakow Jimi Hendrix
Kurkow live in Lemberg
in der Nacht
In the tumultuous wake of the Russian
Andrej Kurkow
Herbstfeuer
Roman · Diogenes
Erzählungen · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes
Revolution, the young, recently orphaned
Bonfire
Stories, 2007
The Milkman
in the Night
The Gardener
of Ochakov
Jimi Hendrix
Live in Lviv
Grey Bees
Novel, 2019
Samson finds himself almost accidentally Andrej Kurkow
signed up to the new Soviet police force in
Novel, 2009 Novel, 2012 Novel, 2014
Kyiv. His first case is a perplexing mystery
Samson und
involving a severed ear, a bone made of Nadjeschda
»If anyone is seeking macabre but »Andrej Kurkow is a master Kriminalroman
pure silver and a decidedly unusual suit tai-
sympathetic insights into the opaque of the subordinate clause – so laconic Diogenes
lored from fine English cloth. Luckily,
world of post-Soviet politics, then that one would even read a
Andrej Kurkow's novels are probably lawnmower instruction manual if Samson meets the ingenious Nadezhda,
one of the best places to start.« it were written by him.« who aids him in his investigation.
Judy Dempsey / International Herald Tribune, Paris Die Welt, Berlin Novel
Original Russian title: Samson i Nadežda
368 pages, August 2022
»An ironic lightness of touch, black humour
»One of the most wonderful »The ordinariness of the absurd
and an intuitive grasp of the pragmatism
literary surprises of recent years.« triumphantly emphasises the grotesque
of ordinary people forced to live through
Le Soir, Brussels nature of the reality.«
difficult times – these have always been the World rights are handled by Diogenes
Spectator, London
hallmarks of Andrej Kurkow’s prose.« except Russian and Ukrainian.
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Deutschlandradio, Berlin Film rights are available.
Rights sold: Andrej Kurkow’s books
have been published in 39 languages.
English/UK (MacLehose)
andrej kurkow, born in St. Petersburg in 1961, has lived in Kyiv since child-
French (Liana Levi)
hood and writes in Russian. He studied foreign languages (he is fluent in eleven
Greek (Kastaniotis)
languages), was a newspaper editor and, during his military service, a prison
guard. Afterwards, he became a cameraman and wrote numerous screenplays. Spanish/world (Alfaguara)
His novel Death and the Penguin was a worldwide success. He has been a free- Russian original publisher: Folio
lance author since 1996 and also works in radio and television. Ukrainian (Folio)
FICTION
Arno Camenisch
The world had changed. It was January, and I was on
The World
the terrace outside my apartment, gazing out across the
lake. A strong wind was gusting that morning. It came
from the east, and I held a cup of coffee in my hand. Following such bestsellers as The Shadow
Over the Village and The Last Snow: the
I was wearing a thick coat and had no idea what was intimate new novel by the bestselling Swiss
Arno Camenisch Die Welt
coming. Everything was uncertain; the world was author.
in upheaval. I was nearly forty-four, mid-life. I liked In his ingenious and poetic new novel,
January, and I especially liked the clarity of January Arno Camenisch weaves together the jour-
neys he has made, the people he has loved,
days. Only in January were they this clear. I huddled and the different phases of his life – but
my coat tighter around my neck, and when I closed the story he tells is about us all.
my eyes the lake sounded like the sea, and I thought A book about departures and arrivals, about
new beginnings and final scenes, and a love
of Santiago, of his aged face and young eyes, of the way
letter to the world and to humanity.
he’d stood by the shore and looked out across the sea,
after eighty-four days without catching a thing, and Life – and seemingly the whole world – is at
then set sail. I saw him stand there by the sea and saw a standstill. Yet could that be the hint of a
Arno
him climb into the boat and glide across the water.
new beginning drifting in across the lake?
The narrator is standing on the terrace of his
Camenisch
The old man in that boat would never return; someone apartment, watching a boat glide across the Die Welt
else would. And I thought back to 2003, the year that water, and his mind begins to wander – back Roman · Diogenes
into the past, and to the people dear to his
everything changed. heart. Where did he get the courage to keep
letting go and starting anew? It always began
It had all started, however, two years earlier, in the summer with a sense of being constricted, with curi- Novel
144 pages, August 2022
of 2001. We had survived Y2K and emerged into the new osity about the world, with a journey …
millennium fit and well, if a little hungover, contrary to
various experts who had predicted the end of the world.
»Camenisch writes unique World rights are handled by Diogenes.
and wonderful prose that finds its own Film rights are available.
rhythm and its own poetry.«
Angelo Algieri, Die Berliner Literaturkritik Arno Camenisch’s work has been published
in more than 20 languages.
»His prose is refreshing,
arno camenisch, born and raised in Tavanasa in the Swiss canton of
Grisons in 1978, studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. In 2009, like crisp mountain air.« Application for translation
Photo: © Janosch Abel
Engeler Verlag published his first novel, The Alp, which was followed Thomas Lee, The Manchester Review support possible with Pro Helvetia.
by eleven more books. His work has been translated into more than twenty
languages, and his readings have taken him across the world, from
Hong Kong to Moscow and Buenos Aires to New York. In March 2015, »A powerful author.«
he released the documentary Arno Camenisch – Writing on the Edge. Die Welt, Berlin
FICTION
»Rare linguistic splendour and striking narrative virtuosity.«
Andreas Isenschmid / NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich
Charles Lewinsky
His Son
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Charles Lewinsky Melnitz
Charles
Charles Lewinsky Louis Chabos does not know who his father
Lewinsky Melnitz
Johannistag Charles is. And he won’t rest until he finds out.
r Lewinsky
stselle
Charles Lewinsky Sein Sohn
# 1 Be Gerron
Roman · Diogenes
Roman · Diogenes
Roman · Diogenes An odyssey through war-torn Europe: from
Napoleonic Milan to Russia and a Swiss
Midsummer’s Day Melnitz Gerron
Novel, 2000 / 2021 Novel, 2006 / 2021 Novel, 2011 / 2021 mountain village to Paris.
›Prix du meilleur ›German Book Prize‹ A novel about the all-consuming need to
livre étranger‹ 2014 (nominated) know where we come from – the new
2008 (winner) ›Swiss Book Prize‹ literary masterstroke by the author whose
2011 (nominated) Halfbeard was nominated for the 2020
German and Swiss Book Prizes.
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Louis Chabos grew up in a children’s home
CHarles Lewinsky Der Stotterer
Charles Lewinsky Der Halbbart
Charles Lewinsky Sind Sie das?
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stselle stselle
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in Milan. After his battlefield experiences
during Napoleon’s Russian campaign, he
Charles
Lewinsky Charles
Charles
Lewinsky
wants only one thing: to settle down to a Charles
Lewinsky
Kastelau Lewinsky Charles
Der Stotterer Lewinsky
Der Halbbart
Sind Sie das?
Eine Spurensuche comfortable life at long last and build a
family. In Grisons, in eastern Switzerland,
Sein Sohn
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he finds the small piece of happiness he has
Kastelau The Stutterer Halfbeard Is that You?
Novel, 2014 / 2021 Novel, 2019 Novel, 2020 Non-Fiction, 2021 hoped for. But he squanders it when his
Roman · Diogenes
›Swiss Book Prize‹ desperate urge to track down his unknown
2020 (nominated) father lures him to Paris, where he seeks his
›German Book Prize‹ destiny amid the splendour and the misery.
2020 (nominated)
Novel
272 pages, September 2022
»Lewinsky has a deft feel for drama; you get the impression he has a field day
setting the readers on one track and then drawing them onto another.« »A wise and eloquent novelist.«
Alexander Kissler / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
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Film rights are available.
»Above all, though, the tradition,
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the storytelling itself is always part Charles Lewinsky’s books
of the narrative; this is the allure have been published in 15 languages.
of the multi-layered works.«
Peter Zander / Berliner Morgenpost Application for translation
charles lewinsky, born in Zurich in 1946, has been a freelance writer since support possible with Pro Helvetia.
1980. He won international renown with his novel Melnitz, which was awarded
numerous prizes, including the French ›Prix du meilleur livre étranger‹. His most
recent novel Halfbeard was nominated for the Swiss and German Book Prizes.
Charles Lewinsky lives in Vereux (France) in summer, and in Zurich in winter.FICTION
»Krien is masterful when it comes to letting her characters’
everyday lives illuminate the big questions.« Daniela Krien
Richart Kämmerlings / Welt am Sonntag, Berlin Someday We’ll Tell
Each Other Everything
Daniela Krien Muldental
Daniela Krien Die Liebe im Ernstfall
Daniela Krien Der Brand
A bestseller, acclaimed by critics and readers
alike.
Daniela Krien Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen
r r
ller stselle stselle
Bestse # 1 Be # 1 Be Winner of the ›Nicolas Born Debut Prize‹ 2015.
Daniela Krien
Daniela Krien
Muldental
Die Liebe Daniela Krien A film adaptation is in production, directed
im Ernstfall Der Brand
Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes by Emily Atef (3 Days in Quiberon).
Muldental Love in Case of Emergency The Fire It’s the kind of love that sweeps Maria off
Stories, 2014/2020 Novel, 2019 Novel, 2021
her feet – and into the arms of a man who’s
To be published in 3 languages To be published in 30 languages To be published in 9 languages more than twice her age and hiding a dark
secret. In the stifling hot summer of 1990,
as world history holds its breath, a country
stands on the brink of radical upheaval and
»And there it is again – love – »Daniela Krien’s books possess an
and the question of what consistency immense feel for contemporary voices.« the atmosphere fizzes with possibility, a
it actually has. Krien depicts
it masterfully.«
Knut Cordsen / BR24, Munich young girl becomes a woman and a lover.
Daniela Krien
What happens next shakes everything to its
Irgendwann
core – inside and out – and the two lovers’
Katrin Schumacher / MDR Kultur, Leipzig
werden wir uns
»The author adeptly turns an unsparing fatal entanglement comes to a brutal end. alles erzählen
gaze on the simple, the succinct,
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»›Knowledge of human nature on that which is wordlessly endured »This deceptively elegant story reveals
and the wisdom of life‹ – yes, that may in a marriage, and captures it within great emotional and cultural upheaval.«
be the secret of Daniela Krien’s language.« Kirkus Reviews, New York
literature. A knowledge of human Nora Zukker / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich
nature and a wisdom that’s reflected Novel
in her style.« »A candid tale of raw passion, First published by Graf, Munich in 2011
256 pages, December 2022
Rainer Moritz / Laudatory speech ›Saxonian Prize whose essence and timelessness shines
»Her style is clear and unadorned. Movie Adaptation
for Literature‹ 2020 through the spare prose.«
And yet her language is never banal; Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
it is always artfully literary.«
Anke Jahns / NDR Kultur, Hamburg
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Danish (Arvids)
English/UK (MacLehose)
Spanish/world (Salamandra) Daniela Krien’s books
Thai (Library House) have been published in 30 languages.
daniela krien, born in Neu-Kaliß, Germany, in 1975, studied communication,
media, and cultural studies in Leipzig. Since 2010 she has been a freelance writer.
Her debut novel Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything has been published
in 18 languages. Her novels Love in Case of Emergency and The Fire were on
the bestseller list for months and have been translated into numerous languages.
Daniela Krien lives in Leipzig with her two daughters.FICTION
»A virtuoso of the historical novel.«
Charles Linsmayer / NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich
Lukas Hartmann
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They call him a ›hothead‹ and her a ›hys-
teric‹ – Fritz Platten and Sabina Spielrein.
• Pestalozzis Berg
Lukas
Hartmann • Die Seuche Lukas Lukas
Lukas Hartmann Ins Unbekannte
Hartmann Lukas Hartmann
Pestalozzis
Berg Die Seuche
Hartmann
Bis ans Ende
Finsteres Two passionate people yearning for a new
Lukas Hartmann
Lukas Hartmann
Glück
der Meere
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ller
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life: A dual portrait of a political revolution-
ary and a female pioneer of psychoanalysis,
Pestalozzi’s The Plague To the End Dark Bliss
Mountain Novel, 2009 of the Sea Novel, 2010
whose colourful lives reflect the hopes and
Novel, 2009 Novel, 2009 tragedies of the twentieth century
Sabina has come to Zurich from Russia to
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be treated by Dr. Carl Gustav Jung at the
University Psychiatric Clinic – and
Lukas becomes his lover.
• Konvoi
Lukas Hartmann Lukas
Hartmann Lukas Hartmann
Hartmann Abschied
Lukas
Räuberleben Auf
Lukas Hartmann
Der Konvoi von Sansibar
beiden Seiten
Bestse
ller
Bestse
ller
Bestse
ller
Fritz, a carpenter’s son, dreams of building
Hartmann
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a better society. He pushes Switzerland to
A Robber’s Life The Convoy Goodbye On Both Sides
Novel, 2012 Novel, 2013 to Zanzibar
Novel, 2013
Novel, 2015 the brink of revolution, and later in Russia
he saves Lenin’s life.
Ins Unbekannte
Die Geschichte von
Sabina und Fritz
Sabina and Fritz are courageous, torn, full Roman · Diogenes
Lukas Hartmann Schattentanz
Lukas Hartmann Ein Bild von Lydia
of contradictions; both ceaseless breakers
of new ground. Their paths interweave and
Lukas
Hartmann Lukas mirror one another – even as they slip away
Ein passender Hartmann Lukas Lukas
The Story of Sabina and Fritz
Mieter Ein Bild
von Lydia
Hartmann Hartmann
Schattentanz into the darkness of European history.
ller ller
Der Sänger
ller
Die Wege des Louis Soutter
ller
Novel
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A Suitable Tenant A Picture of Lydia The Singer Shadow Dance
Novel, 2016 Novel, 2018 Novel, 2019 Novel, 2021
»Lukas Hartmann knows how to write
history in a way that puts
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the present in a different light.«
Film rights are available.
Augsburger Allgemeine
Photo: Lukas Lienhard / © Diogenes Verlag
Lukas Hartmann’s books
have been published in 17 languages.
Application for translation
lukas hartmann, born in Berne in 1944, studied German
and psychology. He was a teacher, journalist and media consultant. support possible with Pro Helvetia.
Today, he is a freelance writer living in Berne, writing books for
adults and children. He is one of Switzerland’s best-known authors
and his novels regularly feature on the bestseller lists.FICTION
»The fragile elegance of his style is unmatched
in contemporary literature.« Hartmut Lange
Werner Fuld / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung At the Oslo Fjord or The Stranger
›Gerhart Hauptmann Award‹ 1968
›Konrad Adenauer Literature Award‹ 1998
›Italo Svevo Award‹ 2003
Hartmut Lange has long been acknow
ledged as a master of subtly describing
»imperceptibly approaching shadows«.
Hartmut Lange Am Osloer Fjord oder der Fremde
Hartmut Lange Die Waldsteinsonate
Stories that disturb us, turning our percep-
Hartmut
Lange tions on their head. Terse, enigmatic, ironi-
Der Wanderer
cally relentless.
Hartmut Lange Hartmut Hartmut
Die Waldstein- Lange Lange Hartmut Lange
sonate Leptis Magna Der Der Abgrund
Fünf Novellen
Zwei Novellen
Therapeut des Endlichen
Drei Novellen Drei Novellen
A viral plague that could destroy humanity:
Diogenes Diogenes Novelle · Diogenes Diogenes Diogenes
The ›Waldstein‹ Leptis Magna The Wanderer The Therapist The Abyss but isn’t it already under threat from a far
Sonata Two Novellas, 2003 Novella, 2005 Three Novellas, 2007 of the Finite
Five Novellas, 1984 Three Novellas, 2009
worse enemy? What is it that audiences
admire about seeing a consumptive depict-
›Prix de la littérature ›LiteraTour Nord‹
traduite‹ 1989 Award 2004
ed on the operatic stage, or an absinth-
drinker in a museum? What happens when
nature attacks a monument that humanity
Hartmut
has erected to itself? A book about parting,
Lange
Hartmut Lange An der Prorer Wiek und anderswo
Hartmut Lange Der Lichthof
and the experience of wounds that refuse
Hartmut Lange to heal – and about the stumbling stones in Am Osloer Fjord
oder der Fremde
An der Prorer Wiek
Hartmut und anderswo
Lange Hartmut
Lange
Hartmut
Lange
our own minds.
Im Museum Der Lichthof
Das Haus in der
Dorotheenstraße
Novellen · Diogenes Diogenes
Diogenes
Diogenes Novellen ⋅ Diogenes
In the Museum The House on On the Prorer Wiek The Courtyard
Weird Episodes, 2011 Dorothea Street and Elsewhere Novellas, 2020
Five Novellas, 2013 Novellas, 2018
»At a time when existential questions
have become so urgent, having been Novellas
repressed for so long, Lange’s books 96 pages, October 2022
are immensely relevant.«
»The master of linguistic stringency.« »One feels reminded of the plays
Peter Henning / Der Spiegel, Hamburg
Kristina Maidt-Zinke / Süddeutsche Zeitung, by Maeterlinck and Wedekind.«
Munich Alain Bosquet / Le Figaro, Paris
»Hartmut Lange has a talent World rights are handled by Diogenes.
for inventing characters in brief Film rights are available.
sketches, building atmosphere
and tension and suggesting a hidden Hartmut Lange’s books
Photo: © Hans-Christian Plambeck/laif
secret beneath what is told.«
have been published in 9 languages.
Michael Lentz (German author)
»A minimalist with far-reaching effect.«
hartmut lange, born in Berlin in 1937, studied theatrical production. Hans-Christian Kosler / Neue Zürcher Zeitung
He has been honoured with several awards for his plays, essays and prose.
His most recent publication is the novella collection The Courtyard
(2020). He lives and writes in Berlin.FICTION
»Still the most original crime writer in the German language.«
Christel Freitag / NDR Kultur, Hamburg
Ingrid Noll
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meiner Abendhauch
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Friends Nina and Franziska live in the
Hell Hath Head Count The Pharmacist Cold is the
same building on the market square in a
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and four other women found the ›Nutters’
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the art of the comic crime novel.«
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Ingrid Noll’s books
have been published in 28 languages.
ingrid noll, born in Shanghai in 1935, studied German philology and art
history in Bonn. She has three children and four grandchildren. After her
children left home, she began writing crime stories, which all became instant
bestsellers. In 2005 she received the ›Glauser Prize of Honour‹ for her oeuvre.FICTION
»One of the 10 best modern European crime writers.«
Brian Oliver / The Observer, London
Petros Markaris
Conspiracy
Petros Markaris' novels are regulars on the bestseller lists in Greece, Italy (Il Corriere
della Sera), Spain (La Vanguardia), and Germany (Spiegel).
The latest case for Costas Haritos is a pan-
demic crime novel from award-winning,
internationally bestselling author Petros
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in Athens Novel, 2001 Novel, 2004 Shareholder
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ing that even the elderly are taking their
own lives. Yet when Costas Haritos hears
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live the Suicide Movement!‹ in his note, Markaris
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»A writer of Mediterranean Noir
Petros Markaris Offshore
Petros Markaris Ferienbekanntschaft
Petros Markaris Zeiten der Heuchelei
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Petros Markaris’ books
have been published in 17 languages.
petros markaris, born in Istanbul in 1937, is a playwright, who worked as an
author with Theo Angelopoulos (director of Eternity and a Day, Ulysses’ Gaze
etc.), and translated the works of German dramatists like Brecht and Goethe.
He began writing crime novels late in life, in the mid-1990s, and became an interna-
tional success. His accolades include the ›Pepe Carvalho Prize‹, the ›Goethe
Medal‹ and an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki. Petros
Markaris lives in Athens.Food for thought: Narrative Non-Fiction
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DORIS DÖRRIE DIE HELDIN REIST
WAS BLEIBT, WENN WIR STERBEN
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MEYER DÖRRIE LOUISE BROWN
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BLEIBT
WENN WIR STERBEN
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LOUISE BROWN
EUCH! Dönhoff
Ein gutes Leben ist
ERFAHRUNGEN EINER TRAUERREDNERIN
die beste Antwort
Die Geschichte des Jerry Rosenstein
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Thomas Meyer Doris Dörrie Louise Brown Friedrich Dönhoff
Break Up! The Heroine’s Journey What Memories Living Well
Essay, 2018 Non-Fiction, 2022 Are Made Of Is the Best Revenge
Non-Fiction, 2021 The Story of Jerry Rosenstein, 2014
A book about incompatible Heroes have to set out into the big
relationships and their well-earned wide world and have adventures in order After the death of her parents, A book about a man who will
endings. Thomas Meyer’s controversial to become heroes – otherwise there’d the journalist Louise Brown tries to not let anyone keep him down:
polemic: »Four out of five relationships be no story. But what about heroines? extract something meaningful from the neither as a German Jew in Europe
ought to be ended right away.« finitude of life. She becomes a funeral nor as a homosexual in America.
orator, and a witness to what remains
of us when we die.
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ULRICH WEBER FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT
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Jörg Fauser Marlon Brando
Dalai Lama
Jörg Fauser Malte Herwig Mitgefühl
FRIEDRICH Marlon Brando Françoise Gilot und
Die Frau, die Nein sagt
DÜRRENMATT Der versilberte Rebell Ihr Leben mit und ohne Picasso
Weisheit
EINE BIOGRAPHIE Eine Biographie Ein Gespräch mit
Felizitas von Schönborn
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DIOGENES
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Ulrich Weber Jörg Fauser Malte Herwig Dalai Lama
Friedrich Dürrenmatt Marlon Brando. The Woman Who Says No Path of Wisdom,
Biography, 2020 The Silver-Plated Rebel Biography, 2015/2021 Path of Peace
Biography, 1978/2020 A Conversation With Felizitas von
Ulrich Weber tells the story Françoise Gilot on her life with Schönborn, 2004
of Dürrenmatt’s life (including his love Fauser and Brando – two ruptured souls and without Pablo Picasso. She was the
of astronomy, physics, painting, football united by more than just their ability only woman to ever leave Picasso, Based on her in-depth, first-hand
and dogs), the genesis of his works to getting back up when knocked down. and to him she remained a mystery. conversations, Felizitas von Schönborn
and of the cosmic mind, whose probing Françoise Gilot is a painter, has been able to bring together the views
questions accompany us well a truth-seeker, a rebel. and core values of the Dalai Lama
into the 21st century. and Tibetan Buddhism.NON-FICTION
Shelly Kupferberg
My great-great-uncle was a dandy. His name was Isidor.
Isidor
Or Innozenz. Or Ignaz. Well, actually, it was Israel. But
this name revealed too much. Hence Isidor or Innozenz
or Ignaz. He was an upstart, an eccentric, a parvenu, Shelly Kupferberg recounts the meteoric
rise and brutal fall of her great-great-uncle.
a multi-millionaire, an occasional impostor, a man of action
Shelly Kupferberg Isidor
Isidor and those around him – the story of
and of the world; he was stubborn and very proud. How a fascinating Jewish family. A moving nar-
else do you explain his rise from the deepest, most impove- rative non-fiction debut.
rished recesses of Galicia in Eastern Europe to the imperial Dr. Isidor Geller has made it: he is a highly
metropolis of Vienna, where he became a prominent respected business man, an advisor to the
figure in the business community and an economic advisor Austrian government, a multi-millionaire,
an opera lover, art collector and, after two
to the Austrian government? How else could he have failed marriages, is in a relationship with a
clawed his way from Lokutni – Lokutni near Tlumach, beautiful singer. He has come a long way:
Tlumach near Kolomyia, Kolomyia near Lviv – so inexo- from a shtetl in the furthest, most impover-
rably to the top? Until the day came when people like ished recesses of Galicia to the most elite
circles of Viennese society.
Shelly
him were marked for annihilation. Kupferberg
Isidor. Who was he? Where did his relentless urge to advan-
No one can touch him now, Isidor is sure Isidor
of that – and certainly not those vulgar Ein jüdisches Leben
ce himself in life originate? What shaped him? Who shaped National Socialists.
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him? Where did his family come from, what did they do,
But in 1938, everything changes from one
what shaped them – and what paths did they take? day to the next.
A Jewish Life
Isidor. It is his story, and that of those around him – pieced Non-Fiction
256 pages, October 2022
together from fragments, research, documents and interge-
nerational lore – that is the subject of this book. »In 1938, the Nazis in Vienna drove Uncle
Isidor to his death. Nearly a hundred
years later, his great-grandniece brings
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this colourful man and his world to life
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in this moving book.«
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Donna Leon
shelly kupferberg, born in Tel Aviv in 1974, grew up in West Berlin
and studied journalism, theatre and music. She works as a journalist
and presenter for Deutschlandfunk Kultur and RBB Kultur, and often hosts
at readings with German and international authors. Shelly Kupferberg lives
with her family in Berlin.NON-FICTION
More and more species are going extinct –
and now Homo sapiens is disappearing too. Nadja Niemeyer
Counterattack
The downfall of humanity began with a cat video. A pamphlet against human hubris, a plea
for greater natural diversity, and a dark and
People thought the animals in it were cute, and the furious vision of the future. Bottomless,
Bernhard Schlink Die Enkelin
recording was shared millions of times via social savage, funny – and deeply urgent.
networks. By the time the first few viewers began For everybody who loves this planet – and is
committed to its survival.
to grasp the significance of the video, it was too late.
Raincoats don’t help against a tsunami. The more globalised the world becomes,
the more vulnerable we are as human
The end of humanity began in January 2034, and beings. Homo sapiens knows this, and yet
within a few years it was a done deal. still we carry on as always. We eat too
much meat, we use pesticides, we drive cars
Sure, a few individual specimens continued to eke every day. But one day all those cute kit-
out a hardscrabble existence, a bit like the last white ties, good-natured cattle and shy squirrels
will launch a counterattack. Things will
rhinoceroses, but the fact is that by 2038 the genus start happening very fast – and before long
Nadja Niemeyer
Homo sapiens was largely extinct, or had at least lost it will all be over. No more fun, no more GEGEN
its position as the dominant species once and for all. day-to-day craziness, no more human
beings. ANGRIFF
Its disappearance marked the apex of mass extinctions Ein Pamphlet Diogenes
during the Anthropocene, but at the same time it kick
started a much-needed period of healing for the planet.
A Pamphlet
176 pages, June 2022
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Nadja Niemeyer is not the author’s real
name. She has chosen a pseudonym to
avoid having to take part in public debates.
She is serious about her concerns and has
nothing to add to this book.NON-FICTION
»Brunetti's humane police work is disarming,
and his ambles through the city are a delight.« Donna Leon
Donna Leon Milde Gaben
New York Times Book Review A Tale of One’s Own
Where did Donna Leon get her name? What
›Lifetime Achievement Award‹ 2019 did she do for a living before she began
by The Strand Magazine turning words into narratives? And what is
Donna Leon Ein Leben in Geschichten
Donna Leon life like when your imagination has a crimi-
Milde Gaben
Commissario Brunettis
nal bent?
einunddreißigster Fall
A personal book, and a biography in adven-
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»This book is classic Leon: Brunetti
tures on the world-famous author’s 80th
Give Unto Others
is less focused on any actual
crime than on figuring out whether birthday: wonderful episodes of Donna’s life.
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some other unknown crime has
been committed, whether he himself Donna Leon has led an adventurous life,
A Sunday Times Bestseller is doing something wrong by using and with her tell-tale knack for observation,
A New York Times Bestseller official resources on an unofficial she turns her experiences in America, Iran,
investigation, whether the ends of
Rights sold: finding information he needs justifies
Saudi Arabia, Italy (of course) and
Catalan (Grup 62) Signorina Elettra's shadowy means Switzerland into a captivating read. She Donna Leon
Dutch (De Bezige Bij) of procuring it[...] Still the next
best thing to moving to Venice.«
takes us on a journey around the world,
from growing up on a farm, to curfew
Ein Leben
English/UK (William Heinemann)
English/US (Grove/Atlantic) Kirkus Reviews, New York pajama parties in Iran, financial straits, and
in Geschichten
French (Calmann-Lévy) a Fiat 600. And we join Donna as she
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arrives in Italy as a chaperone, as she hunts
Spanish/world (Seix Barral)
»Another moving meditation on the for the perfect cappuccino, and as she
vagaries of human relationships encounters small marvels in the mountains.
posing as a mystery novel. There is no
ambiguity about the unalloyed Non-Fiction
affection millions of readers feel toward 160 pages, September 2022
Guido Brunetti, one of crime fiction’s
most popular protagonists.«
»There is no worse crime
Booklist (starred review), New York
than not having loved.«
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Donna Leon’s books
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have been published in 35 languages.
donna leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, has worked as a travel guide
in Rome and as a copywriter in London. She taught literature in universities
in Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. Commissario Brunetti made her books
world-famous. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although
she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice.NON-FICTION
»Whatever he wrote left its mark.«
Der Spiegel, Hamburg
Jörg Fauser
You Just Cling On
to What You’ve Got
Jörg Fauser Kant
Jörg Fauser Der Schneemann
Fauser writes to his parents – a unique tes-
Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser
Rohstoff Das Der Schneemann Kant Rohstoff tament in a new, expanded and uncensored
Schlangenmaul Elements
edition that includes facsimiles of letters
Jörg Fauser Ich habe eine Mordswut
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Raw Material The Snake Mouth The Snowman Kant Raw Material –
Novel, 1984/2019 Novel, 1985/2019 Novel, 1981/2020 Story, 2021 Elements Compiled and edited by Peter Graf, with an
Movie Adaptation Early Prose and afterword by Ronja von Rönne.
Poems, 2019
At the age of twelve, he was fulminating
Jörg Fauser Ich habe große Städte gesehen
Jörg Fauser Alles muss ganz anders werden
about a writer in a letter to his father.
Before he even turned fourteen, he raved
about a young SPD party member while
Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser
Ich habe große
Städte gesehen
Alles muss
ganz anders werden
Das Weiße im Auge
Erzählungen 1980 – 87
Caliban Berlin
Kolumnen 1980 – 84
discussing a meeting of the federal parlia-
ment: ›Helmut Schmidt from Hamburg!
Die Gedichte Erzählungen 1975 – 79
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He was brilliant! Captivating!‹
I Have Seen Big Cities Everything Must Be The White of the Eye Caliban Berlin
Poems, 1974-1979, 2019 Completely Different
Stories and Prose,
Stories, 2021 Columns, 2019
Each letter reveals a new facet of Jörg Man hängt halt so
2020
Fauser: far-sighted observer, passionate an dem, was man hat
writer, incorruptible journalist and loving Briefe an die Eltern
Jörg Fauser Die Tournee
Jörg Fauser Der Klub, in dem wir alle spielen
Jörg Fauser Marlon Brando
and rebellious son.
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Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser Jörg Fauser
Marlon Brando Der Klub, in dem Carl Weissner Die Tournee
Der versilberte Rebell
Eine Biographie
wir alle spielen
Über den Zustand der Literatur
Eine Freundschaft
Briefe 1971 – 87
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Rage
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Marlon Brando. The Club We All A Friendship The Tour »I’ll be there next Thursday evening, unless
The Silver-Plated Rebel Play In Letters, 2021 Novel, 2007/2022
Biography, 1978/2020 Essays and advised otherwise. Fare (ten marks is
Reviews, 2020 enough) would be gratefully received.«
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»He had something of the beatnik about
Jörg Fauser’s books
him, but also an element of aristocratic
Englishness. [. . .] You’ll be amazed at how have been published in 9 languages.
fresh his writing feels.«
jörg fauser (1944–1987) was born near Frankfurt. After dropping out of Michael Köhlmeier / rbb, Berlin
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university, he spent some years living in Istanbul and London, making a living
in office jobs, as an airport worker and night watchman, among other things.
In 1974, he switched to writing. His novels, poems, newspaper articles and
short stories occupy an exceptional position in German literature. Jörg Fauser
died in an accident on a motorway near Munich on the night after his birthday.CHILDREN’S BOOK
Micha Lewinsky
Holly in Heaven
Holly was flying. She could hardly believe it. She was
flying through the air, just like that. It really was extra-
ordinary. Heaven: it’s buzzing up there.
Holly had only flown once before. In a plane. With her A madcap, playful and philosophical adven-
ture that deals with some of children’s most
parents, when her parents still wanted to fly in planes pressing questions.
together. They’d let her have some chewing gum to help A story that will take the hearts of children
her ears pop, and Timi, her little brother, had cried and parents by storm. A book that stands
because he wanted some too. Holly’s dad had tried to comparison with the most beautiful chil-
dren's books in world literature, perfectly
act like the family with the screaming kid had nothing complemented by Lawrence Grimm’s illus-
to do with him. And then Holly’s mum had tried to act trations.
like Holly’s dad had nothing to do with her. In the end,
When Holly arrives in heaven, it turns out
Holly had stuck the gum under her seat. her life is far from over: there’s a lot going
on in the other world. The place is packed
That had been special. But not outright extraordinary. with people and animals, but amid the
Not as especially extraordinary as this right now. crowds she meets Frida, who has been
Because right now, Holly was flying without any plane there for a hundred years and knows her
way around.
at all. She just flew. Like an angel, only without wings.
Because she wasn’t an angel. Holly was still a totally Together they set off towards the School for
ordinary girl. Angels. Because, as Frida explains, if you’re With illustrations by Lawrence Grimm
an angel you can go back down to Earth. Children’s Book
Holly is desperate to see how her family is 208 pages, 13.4 x 19.5 cm, September 2022
doing. There’s only one problem: ever since
Bortel has been in charge of heaven, the
school has been closed and the connection
to Earth has been severed. World rights are handled by Diogenes.
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micha lewinsky, born in Kassel in 1972, is a screenwriter and film director,
Photo: © Doris Fanconi
with projects including The Friend (›Swiss Film Prize‹), Will You Marry Us?
and One-Way to Moscow. He also produced Earworms, catchy songs for chil-
dren that have found their way into virtually every Swiss child’s room.
Lewinsky is currently working on a new feature film. He lives in Zurich with
his two children.CHILDREN’S BOOK
»Andrej Kurkow knows how to make a story
entertaining and amusing.«
Andrej Kurkow / Tania Goryushina
Judith Leister / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Hedgehog and the Present Puzzle
Rights sold: Getting in the mood for autumn in the
Tania Goryushina Andrej Kurkow
Croatian (Božičević) forest: the little hedgehog and the grey
French (Borealia) mouse prepare for the cosiest season of the
Russian (Pionier) year.
Swedish (Tyanachu)
Ukrainian (Bohdan) Follows on from the heart-warming tale
that was awarded the 2021 ›LovelyBooks
Readers’ Prize.‹
The little hedgehog is back! In the autumn
he likes sunbathing on a hill and watching
the people in the village. When he returns
Warum den Igel to his treestump house, he finds three bags
keiner full of little apples – but what he thinks is a
streichelt gift from the grey mouse soon turns out to
DI OG E N E S be the red squirrel’s stockpile of food for
the winter. Still, that doesn’t matter,
Why Nobody Strokes Hedgehogs because the forest has plenty of gifts to go
Children’s Book around. A celebration of autumn colours
36 pages, 20.5 x 28 cm, 2021
and a homage to friendship.
Original edition published by Bohdan, Kyiv
2021 ›LovelyBooks Readers’ Prize‹
Children’s Book
36 pages, 20.5 x 28 cm, October 2022
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andrej kurkow, born in St. Petersburg in 1961, has lived
in Kyiv since childhood. His novel Death and the Penguin was
Photo: © Pierre Helgesson
a worldwide success. He has been a freelance author since
1996 and also works in radio and television. He writes in Russian.
tania goryushina, born in Kyiv in 1978, is a Ukrainian artist
based in Stockholm. She is a publisher, teacher, and illustrator.
She runs a micropublishing company working on art projects
and winning commissions to decorate public spaces.CHILDREN’S BOOK
Meyer & Meyer put up a riot in children’s book with ingenious
rhymes and wonderful illustrations. Timon Meyer / Julian Meyer
Oodles of Poodles
30'000 copies sold
Do birds move in herds?
Who lives in a shoal?
How’s life in a group?
Who does what in which troop?
Timon and Julian Meyer shake up the animal
Bear & Hippo on Holiday Bear & Hippo in the Snow Bear & Hippo Celebrate Bear ♥ Hippo
26 pages, 18 x 15 cm 24 pages, 18 x 15 cm a Birthday Children’s Book, 2022 kingdom, showing young readers the differ-
2020 2020 24 pages, 18 x 15 cm ent ways animal families live together.
2021
Have fun with rhymes while learning!
Litter, covey, pack, horde? Clear as day –
Das große Knuddeln or as mud? Then this is the picture book
TIMON MEYER / JULIAN MEYER · DAS GROSSE KNUDDELN
Timon Meyer Julian Meyer
Children’s Book
you need to become an expert on the 32 pages, 24 x 17 cm, October 2022
animal world. It’s also incredibly funny:
where else do you get to see a paddling of
DIOGENES
ducks driving some trucks or a shrewdness
of apes and giraffes sharing grapes? The World rights are handled by Diogenes.
Not Today Rolf Bugles Paul’s Garden The Big Cuddle
32 pages, 19 x 25 cm 32 pages, 19 x 25 cm 32 pages, 19 x 25 cm 48 pages, 30 x 25 cm reader is given a tour of the animal world, Film rights are available.
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learning all its crooked, unexpected con-
nections – with pitch-perfect rhymes and
Praise for Not Today: fabulous illustrations.
»But it gives strength, and lends »›So maybe tomorrow, then?‹
courage to hopeless, lonely days. Timon and Julian Meyer keep asking, If a field mouse gets bored
That’s why this book now belongs – hitting the nail on the head. then same goes for the horde.
and indeed, always will belong – Yes, tomorrow the world might look
in every home.« quite different.«
Maria Riederer / Deutschlandfunk, Cologne Judith von Sternburg / Frankfurter Rundschau
But a colony of beavers
is full of overachievers.
In a cauldron of bats,
hang on to your hats.
timon meyer, born near Stuttgart in 1977, is a freelance author Why a murder of crows?
Photo: © Kaya Wielopolski
Photo: © Nikolaus Urban
and artist who lives with his family in Queens, New York. Above
all else, he loves writing for children.
Well, nobody knows.
julian meyer, born in Lower Saxony in 1983, was a carpenter
before going on to study illustration in Münster. He has worked
as a freelance illustrator since 2017. Julian Meyer has a daughter
and lives in Hamburg.CHILDREN’S BOOK
»Tatjana Hauptmann is a pure stroke of good fortune.«
Kurt Bracharz / Tatjana Hauptmann
Lorenz Jaeger / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
How the Mole Nearly Won the Lottery
30'000 copies sold.
Das große Märchenbuch
Die hundert schönsten Märchen aus ganz Europa,
gesammelt von Christian Strich, mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
Diogenes
Das große Sagenbuch
Die schönsten Götter-, Helden- und Rittersagen des Mittelalters
nacherzählt von Johannes Carstensen, mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
An exciting story revolving around a few
wrong letters on which a lottery win of
DiogenesVerlag
A Day in the Life of Hurray for Peregrine Pig The Great Book The Great Book
Petronella Pig 32 pages, 31.8 x 28.5 cm of Fairy-Tales of Legends 100'000 earthworms depended. If only the
32 pages, 31.8 x 28.5 cm 1979 672 pages, 22 x 27 cm 240 pages, 11.3 x 18 cm
1978 1987 1992 pig hadn't got such terrible trotters…
»Written with velvet-pawed irony
Anton Čechov
and wonderfully gentle comedy, and loving-
Kaschtanka
und andere Kindergeschichten
Ausgewählt und übersetzt von
ly illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann.«
Peter Urban
Katrin Behrend / Abendzeitung, Munich
Mit Zeichnungen von
Ein Geräusch, wie wenn einer versucht, Tatjana Hauptmann
kein Geräusch zu machen Diogenes
Eine Geschichte von John Irving, mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
Diogenes
A Sound Like How the Mole Nearly Adelheid Goes Kashtanka The Adventures
Someone Trying Won the Lottery to the Opera Text by Anton Čechov of Tom Sawyer
Not to Make a Sound Text by Kurt Bracharz 32 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm 160 pages, and Huckleberry Finn »Tatjana Hauptmann's fine
Text by John Irving 64 pages, 2004 14.3 x 21.3 cm Text by Mark Twain and unmistakable line drawings bring
40 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm 2004 336 pages/480
27.5 x 25.2 cm 2003 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm, Kurt Bracharz's imaginative story
2003 2004 lovingly and playfully to life.«
Stuttgarter Zeitung
Die schönsten
Geschichten
Tatjana Hauptmann / James Matthew Barrie Peter Pan
All die
ausTausendundeiner verschwundenen
Theodor Storm / Tatjana Hauptmann · Der kleine Häwelmann
Nacht Dinge
»Tatjana Hauptmann has retained
Eine Geschichte von
James Matthew Barrie
Erzählt von Urs Widmer
Mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
Eine Geschichte von Mit Bildern von
Diogenes
Lukas Hartmann Tatjana Hauptmann
Mit Bildern von
a dreamy playfulness and a sense of vital
Tatjana Hauptmann
naivety. Both qualities are reflected First published in 1983
Der kleine Häwelmann
Ein Märchen von Theodor Storm, mit vielen Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
Das große Balladenbuch
Die schönsten deutschen Balladen, gesammelt von Christian Strich
in her drawings and account for her success Children's Book
64 pages, 14.3 x 21.3 cm, September 2022
Mit Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann
a Diogenes Diogenes
with children as well as young-at-heart
Diogenes Diogenes
The Most Beautiful Tales All the Missing Little John The Great Book Tatjana Hauptmann /
from Arabian Nights Things Text by Theodor Storm of Ballads J.M. Barrie
adults.«
Text by Urs Widmer Text by 40 pages, 152 pages, 22 x 27 cm Peter Pan Stern, Hamburg
144 pages, 22 x 27 cm Lukas Hartmann 27.5 x 25.2 cm 2016 208 pages, 22.5 x 27.5 cm,
2008 96 pages, 2011 2016
14.3 x 21.3 cm
2011
World rights are handled by Diogenes.
Film rights are available.
How the Mole Nearly Won the Lottery has
Photo: © Regine Mosimann/Diogenes Verlag
been published in 8 languages.
Photo: © Kurt Bracharz
tatjana hauptmann was born in 1950 in Wiesbaden and lives near
Zurich. She is the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books,
including A Day in the Life of Petronella Pig, which received numerous kurt bracharz, born in Bregenz in 1947, worked as a teacher
awards, including in 2018 the 37th ›Premio Andersen Award‹, category in Austria. He also worked for newspapers and the radio from 1972
›best book ever‹. on. Kurt Bracharz passed away in 2020.You can also read
