5 Suhrkamp novels nominated for German Book Price 2012

Out of 20 nominated novels, five are published and represented by Suhrkamp. We are truly happy about this success and are proud to present our five nominees:

Bernd Cailloux, born in 1945, lives in Berlin.
In his novel Gutgeschriebene Verluste Bernd Cailloux looks back to the 70s and 80s in West Berlin, when this part of the city was still leading an insular life and became a Mecca for nonconformists, conscientious objectors, revolutionaries, and bohemians...

Rainald Goetz, born in Munich in 1954, lives in Berlin.
The fall of a CEO. Johann Holtrop tells the story of a German CEO in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Over the course of the noughties, Holtrop slides into complete social and economic ruin as abject and definitive as his earlier ascent had been glorious and meteoric...

Clemens J. Setz, born in 1982, lives in Graz.
Forget about a plot summary of a novel that resists all summarisation, and just read the book: Indigo by Clemens J. Setz. Devilishly exciting and as refreshing as a good massage. Afterwards you’ll feel every single muscle...

Stephan Thome was born in Biedenkopf/Hessia in 1972.
With a breathtakingly acute sense of failure and for the things that really hurt, Thome sends his protagonist on a journey, through South-West Europe, that will decide everything. A novel about the disavowals and abysses of life...

Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, born in 1959, lives in Frankfurt/Main.
This is the story of Marlene, who, even before she learns how to read, falls in love with the world of letters. Born into a family of successful advertisers and illustrators, she has a great dream: the perfect font...

The Shortlist of the German Book Prize 2012 will be announced on September 12.

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