Books that Travel 2024
Great stories travel and translate well. Promoting literary translation fosters cultural exchange and enriches the global literary landscape. There are several tools to help books travel across linguistic borders. These include recognition and awards for translators and translated fiction and non-fiction books; educational initiatives that bring literary translation to schools and universities; translation grants and fellowships; book festivals, books fairs – especially those with Guest of Honour programmes - and literary events; collaborations between publishers in different countries; government-funded translation programmes; translators residencies; translators associations and initiatives; book clubs that focus on translated literature. Perhaps you can think of a few more.
These tools can all be harnessed to help create a more inclusive and diverse literary landscape that reflects the richness of global storytelling. Promoting literary translation is a celebration of cultural diversity and an investment in fostering understanding and empathy across borders. In this spirit, we are happy to present below a selection of books translated into English from German that have recently been published. Let’s raise a glass to the translators, publishers, advocates, librarians, and all those who work in the promotion of translated literature, mining for German-language gems they can bring to a broader audience through translation into English. Prost!
Single title
Me, In Between
Madina’s family have fled war to seek asylum in Europe and begin a hopeful new life. Yet she finds herself...
Madina’s family have fled war to seek asylum in Europe and begin a hopeful new life. Yet she finds herself caught between her new life and her traumatic memories of the past. Can Madina find the path that’s right for her?
Contact Foreing Rights: Friederike.Barakat@hanser.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Children’s/young adult book
- ISBN:
- 978-1-83913-124-0
- Author:
- Julya Rabinowich
- Pages:
- 288
Siblings
This fervid, ground-breaking novel, written when Reimann was only twenty-seven, remains one of the cult classics of East German literature....
This fervid, ground-breaking novel, written when Reimann was only twenty-seven, remains one of the cult classics of East German literature.
Contact Foreign Rights: ihmels@aufbau-verlag.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-55584-2
- Author:
- Brigitte Reimann
- Pages:
- 144
Glorious People
What did the disintegration of the Soviet Union feel like for the people who lived through it? Award-winning writer Sasha...
What did the disintegration of the Soviet Union feel like for the people who lived through it? Award-winning writer Sasha Salzmann tells this story in a remarkable novel about two women in extraordinary times.
Contact Foreign Rights: cascio@suhrkamp.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78227-948-8
- Author:
- Sasha Salzmann
- Pages:
- 288
Without Waking Up
Shifting through memories, simple scenes nestled into one another like her own beloved wooden doll, the Matryoshka, Maja struggles to...
Shifting through memories, simple scenes nestled into one another like her own beloved wooden doll, the Matryoshka, Maja struggles to unearth her identity.
Contact Foreing Rights: lizenzen@omvs.at
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-7398423-2-1
- Author:
- Carolina Schutti
- Pages:
- 136
Star 111
Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. A bestselling novel (150,000+ copies in German) telling of the moment of...
Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. A bestselling novel (150,000+ copies in German) telling of the moment of idealism and upheaval after the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Contact Foreign Rights: rights@suhrkamp.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-913505-74-5
- Author:
- Lutz Seiler
- Pages:
- 592
Epic Annette: A Heroine’s Tale
Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a...
Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish children in Paris on the eve of their deportation to the camps. Winner of the German Book Prize in 2020.
Contact Foreign Rights: rights@matthes-seitz-berlin.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-911648-45-1
- Author:
- Anne Weber
- Pages:
- 181
About People
Juli Zeh’s epic new novel explores our present predicaments, biases, weaknesses, and fears, but—above all—it reveals the strengths that come...
Juli Zeh’s epic new novel explores our present predicaments, biases, weaknesses, and fears, but—above all—it reveals the strengths that come to light when we dare to be human.
Contact Foreign Rights: gesche.wendebourg@penguinrandomhouse.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-64286-133-4
- Author:
- Juli Zeh
- Pages:
- 320
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