Three Suhrkamp authors nominated for German Book Prize 2015

Valerie Fritsch, born 1989, grew up in Graz.

Anton Winter grew up in a large farmhouse in the countryside surrounded by a lush garden and thick woods. Years later, the apocalypse seems imminent, chaos reigns, and mass suicides have become the order of the day.

Clemens J. Setz, born 1982, lives in Graz.

The Hour Between Woman and Guitar is a rollercoaster ride into the world of Clemens J. Setz. He reveals its inner order, its secrets and principles: power and the lack thereof, the search for meaning and loss of orientation.

Heinz Helle, born 1978 in Munich.

A group of young men spends a weekend in a mountain cabin. When they return to the lowlands, they find devastated villages. The people are dead or have fled, houses and stores have been looted, and burnt-out cars line the streets...