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!
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An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own,...
An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal.
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-914585-14-2
- Author:
- Ewald Arenz
- Pages:
- 229
Published on the occasion of his 90th birthday, this is perhaps Alexander Kluge's most personal book. The book confronts the...
Published on the occasion of his 90th birthday, this is perhaps Alexander Kluge's most personal book. The book confronts the reader with questions of existential meaning, questions rendered all the more potent by the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Contact Foreign Rights: rights@suhrkamp.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-80309-260-7
- Author:
- Alexander Kluge
- Pages:
- 292
A gripping novel based on the life of the 19th-century revolutionary Emma Herwegh....
A gripping novel based on the life of the 19th-century revolutionary Emma Herwegh.
Contact Foreign Rights: Friederike.Barakat@hanser.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-922268-71-6
- Author:
- Dirk Kurbjuweit
- Pages:
- 368
Bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek sends you on an ingeniously disturbing journey with his brand new psychological thriller. A missing child....
Bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek sends you on an ingeniously disturbing journey with his brand new psychological thriller. A missing child. A desperate father. A terrible secret.
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-80454-234-7
- Author:
- Sebastian Fitzek
- Pages:
- 384
Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand: Wolfram Eilenberger describes the dramatic lives of the most influential...
Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand: Wolfram Eilenberger describes the dramatic lives of the most influential female philosophers of the 20th century with great narrative skill. Amidst the turmoil of the Second World War, they lay the foundations for a truly free, emancipated society as refugees and resistance fighters, the ostracised and the enlightened.
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Non-fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-53737-4
- Author:
- Wolfram Eilenberger
- Pages:
- 400
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in...
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter.
Contact for foreign rights: foreignrights@fischerverlage.de
- Publisher:
- Topic:
- Fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-80427-028-8
- Author:
- Clemens Meyer
- Pages:
- 528
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
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