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Diogenes
Foreign Rights List — Autumn 2020
est• 1952
Joachim B. Schmidt Kalmann
Joachim
Joachim B.
B. Schmidt
Schmidt
Kalmann
Kalmann
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Joachim B. Schmidt
»That was when I first heard that Róbert McKenzie
Kalmann
was missing. And I shouldn’t have been surprised
about this news; after all, the day before I had found
Forrest Gump meets the Coen Brothers.
an enormous pool of blood close to the Arctic Henge.
But somehow I was so blindsided that I didn’t even In this captivating and surprising tale set
Joachim B. Schmidt Kalmann
against the rugged backdrop of Iceland,
tell Sæmundur about it. Sæmundur was still puzzling we meet the unique Kalmann Óðinnsson.
over where Róbert might be, in a brothel in Amster-
dam, for example, or some rehab clinic in Florida. He is the self-appointed sheriff of Raufarhöfn,
and has everything under control. There’s no
I didn’t say a single word, and once I was done with need to worry. Day by day, he treks the wide
my work, I went straight home, because I felt as plains which surround the almost deserted
though I was concealing something, as though I had village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays shark bait
in the sea — to process the fish into the Ice-
done something stupid; and as soon as I told people landic fermented delicacy, hákarl. But inside
about it, I really would have something to do with Kalmann’s head, the wheels sometimes spin
Róbert’s disappearance. If you find a body or its re- backwards. One winter, after he discovers a
pool of blood in the snow, the swiftly un-
Joachim B.
mains, even if it’s only a puddle of blood, you have folding events threaten to overwhelm him. Schmidt
something to do with the matter. From then on, you’re But with his naive wisdom and pure-hearted Kalmann
in the story and, as a result, in the history books. And courage, he makes sure everything takes a
turn for the better. There’s no need to worry.
I wanted to prevent that by simply saying nothing. Roman · Diogenes
But when a woman from the police called me on my
mobile and asked to come to the school building, I got
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nervous, even though I hadn’t done anything. But »It can get pretty dark 320 pages, September 2020
beneath a polar bear.«
regardless. I was prepared for some serious trouble.« Kalmann
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joachim b. schmidt, born in Grisons, Switzerland in 1981, translation costs possible.
is a journalist and the author of three novels and numerous short
stories. He emigrated to Iceland in 2007, where he lives with his
family in Reykjavík and also works as a tour guide.
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Lars Eidinger, opened in cinemas at the beginning of 2017.
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»Schlink is considered to be the bard of his generation,
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Bernhard Schlink
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about the success and failure of love, about
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The Weekend Summer Lies The Woman Explorations Olga
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Movie Adaptation Novel, 2014
Bernhard Schlink’s books
have been published in 55 languages.
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lives in Berlin and New York. His novel The Reader, published in 1995
and turned into a movie by Stephen Daldry in 2009, has been trans-
lated into more than 50 languages and established Bernhard Schlink’s
worldwide renown as an author. He has been awarded several national
and international prizes such as the German ›Bundesverdienstkreuz
(Order of Merit) 1st Class‹, the French ›Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la
Legion d’Honneur‹ and the Italian ›Grinzane Cavour Prize‹.
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Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Diogenes Roman · Diogenes Roman · Diogenes reads as though she’s embracing the entire
world. She tells of melon moments from her
Samsara Where Do We Happy The Blue Dress Straight to the Heart
Stories, 1996 Go from Here? Drama, 2001 Novel, 2002 Stories, 2007 childhood, of pure pasta joy and her love
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for hearty soups. She encourages us to be
grateful for onigiri and ponders cultural
DORIS tolerance over Valencian paella. She rethinks
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Diebe Bestseller Kitchen Inspiration
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Ein Filmbuch
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Doris Dörrie’s stories about food stay with With illustrations
And What Cherry Blossoms All Inclusive Thieves Living, Writing,
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About Me? Hanami Novel, 2011 and Vampires Breathing and life itself.
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Doris Dörrie’s books
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California and in New York before she decided to work behind, and
not in front of, the camera. Men, her third film, was a worldwide hit.
Alongside her work in cinema (including the motion picture Cherry
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novels and children’s books. She lives in Munich, where she teaches
creative writing at the University of Television and Film.
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Centenary of Patricia Highsmith’s birth on 19 January 2021
Patricia Highsmith
Her Diaries and Notebooks
»Writing, of course, is a substitute
for the life I cannot live.«
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH DIARIES
DIARIES
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Diary 10, 17 May 1950
Patricia
Highsmith Her journals reveal a most complex life
Tiefe that might help explain why her novels were
Wasser
HIGHSMITH
so much more than just crime novels:
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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
HIGHSMITH
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HIGHSMITH
Deep Water For the centenary year of Highsmith’s birth, TAGEB ÜCHER
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First published in the USA the legendary author’s personal journals will NOTEBOOKS
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416 pages
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Movie adaptation to be released Rights sold: Her first novel was picked up by Hitchcock
in November 2020: and was a world-wide success.
Catalan (Navona)
Cast: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas Her second novel was meant to tell everything
Croatian (Mozaik)
Director: Adrian Lyne Danish (Lindhardt & Ringhof)
about her true inside and dare what no one
(Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction) English/UK (Little, Brown) had dared to write before: a lesbian love story
Script: Zack Helm and Sam Levinson English/ USA (Norton) with a happy ending. But when she eventually
Production: Entertainment 360 / Estonian (Pegasus) relented to publish it under a pseudonym, it
New Regency Pictures French (Calmann-Lévy) was a decision that would shape her life more
Executive Producers: Steven Zaillian, Italian (La nave di Teseo) than she could have guessed at the time. Hence- DIOGENES
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Korean (Openhouse) forth she would vent her inner life either en-
Garrett Basch, Guymon Casady,
Portuguese/ BRA (Intrínseca) coded in her future novels or — unbeknownst
Ben Forkner, Anthony Katagas,
Romanian (Litera) to most — in the 18 diaries and 38 notebooks
Arnon Milchan, and Philipp Keel
Spanish/world (Anagrama) Edited by Anna von Planta
she kept throughout her life. The way she With photos and documents
Turkish (Can)
talked about her journals — especially her note- 650 pages, Autumn 2021
books — indicates that she always meant to
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you should read Deep Water.« bring them into the open one day. . . To publish
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The Sunday Times, London
them now means to tell the story of a strong
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woman batt-ling with the social norms and
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Catalan (Navona)
»It promises to be one of the literary Chinese/CN (Shanghai Translation)
highlights of 2021 — publication of the diaries English/ UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
patricia highsmith (1921 – 1995), born in Texas, grew up and
of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most English/ USA (Norton)
studied in New York. She achieved worldwide success in 1950 with
her debut novel Strangers on a Train, made into the famous film by conflicted, fascinating novelists of the French (Calmann-Lévy)
Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr. Ripley, published in 20th century.« Italian (La nave di Teseo)
1955, was awarded the ›Edgar Allan Poe Scroll‹ by the Mystery Writers Edward Helmore / The Guardian, London Portuguese/ BRA (Intrínseca)
of America and introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley. Spanish/world (Anagrama)
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Patricia
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Freund Under Water
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The Talented Ripley Under Ripley’s Game The Boy Who Ripley Under Water
Mr. Ripley Ground First published Followed Ripley First published
Patricia Highsmith Ladies
First published First published in 1974 First published in 1991
in 1955 in 1970 in 1980 Before Patricia Highsmith shot to fame with
her debut novel Strangers on a Train, she
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wrote psychological stories. About uprooted
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Bulgarian (Fama) French (Calmann-Lévy) Serbian (Laguna) and boys, sensitive spiders, and women and
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men buffeted around by the storms of life.
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(Shanghai Translation) Japanese (Kawade Shobo) Swedish (Norstedts) Back then, her stories were published in school
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Sixteen early stories, four of them previously Patricia
The Ripley TV Series unpublished in book form:
Highsmith
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of Saint Fotheringay
Shooting of the first season, starting in September 2020 in Italy, has been put on hold.
Further included are the following stories: Early Stories
The Ripley Movies Miss Juste and the Green Rompers, Doorbell
240 pages, November 2020
Purple Noon The American Friend The Talented Mr. Ripley for Louisa, When the Fleet Was in at Mobile,
fr 1960 de /fr 1977 usa /it 1999 The Mightiest Mornings, The Still Point
of the Turning World, A Mighty Nice Man, Patricia Highsmith’s books
Directed by René Clément. Directed by Wim Wenders. Directed by
Uncertain Treasure, Birds Poised to Fly, Magic have been published in 40 languages.
Starring Alain Delon Starring Dennis Hopper and Anthony Minghella.
Bruno Ganz Starring Matt Damon, Casements, The Heroine, The Snail-Watcher,
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Ripley’s Game Gwyneth Paltrow and and Mrs. Afton, among thy Green Braes.
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uk /it/usa/de 2002 Ripley Under Ground Jude Law
Directed by Liliana Cavani. uk/usa/de 2005
Starring John Malkovich Directed by »To read Highsmith’s stories is a delight,
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Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Deep Water Sam Levinson.
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