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Suhrkamp presents Classics from the Backlist: "Refugee Conversations" and "I Didn't Want to Leave Any Questions Unasked"

Rediscover two classics that offer new dimensions to the understanding of the current situation in Europe and throughout the world: The dialogues ...

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16.09.2020

Author Maria Stepanova and translator Olga Radetzkaja receive Brücke Berlin Award for Literature and Translation 2020

Russian author Maria Stepanova and her translator Olga Radetzkaja are awarded the 2020 Brücke Berlin Award for Literature and Translation by the BHF ...

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24.06.2020

Marion Poschmann receives Hölty Prize 2020

Poet, novelist and essayist Marion Poschmann is awarded the Hölty Prize 2020, with a prize money of 20.000 Euros the most highly remunerated prize ...

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19.06.2020

50th Anniversary of the Death of Nelly Sachs on May 12, 2020

May 12, 2020 sees the 50th anniversary of the death of author and poet Nelly Sachs. Nelly Sachs was born on December 10, 1891 to liberal Jewish parents. ...

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11.05.2020

Dževad Karahasan receives Goethe Prize 2020

This year's Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (endowed with €50.000) is awarded to the Bosnian author Dževad Karahasan (Graz/Sarajevo). His ...

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07.05.2020

Nora Bossong receives Thomas Mann Prize 2020

For her œuvre, Nora Bossong is awarded the Thomas Mann Prize (endowed with 25.000 Euros) by the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of ...

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27.04.2020

50th Anniversary of the Death of Paul Celan on April 20, 2020

Paul Celan was born on November 23, 1920 as Paul Antschel, the only son of German-speaking, Jewish parents in Czernowitz. In 1938, Celan began his ...

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20.04.2020

Gunther Geltinger shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2020

It is our pleasure to announce that Gunther Geltinger's novel Fuel is shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2020. The ...

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19.04.2020

75. Anniversary of the Air Raid on Halberstadt on April 8, 2020

1,5 millionen cubic metres of debris and rubble: On April 8, 1945, the German city of Halberstadt was heavily bombed by US-forces. The American ...

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08.04.2020

Clemens J. Setz wins Heinrich-von-Kleist Prize 2020

We are delighted to announce that Clemens J. Setz has been awarded the Heinrich-von-Kleist Prize 2020 for his œuvre. From the jury's ...

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05.04.2020

Peter Bichsel - 85th Birthday on March 24, 2020

On March 24, 2020, Peter Bichsel, born in 1935, is celebrating his 85th birthday. The Swiss author is a unique voice that always represented ...

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24.03.2020

Lutz Seiler wins the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2020

We are excited to announce that Lutz Seiler has been awarded the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2020, fiction category, for Star 111. From ...

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12.03.2020

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - March 2020

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Friederike Mayröcker, études: English published by ...

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11.03.2020

Film Release of "Narcissus and Goldmund" on March 12, 2020

We are delighted to inform you about the upcoming release of the motion picture adaptation of Hermann Hesse's masterpiece Narcissus and Goldmund (1930). ...

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03.03.2020

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - February 2020, issue 2

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Peter Handke, Der Bildverlust: Brazilian ...

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18.02.2020

Lutz Seiler nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2020

We are delighted to announce that Stern 111 by Lutz Seiler is nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2020 in the category fiction. The ...

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12.02.2020

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - February 2020, issue 1

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Max Frisch, Tagebuch 1946-1949: Azerbaijani ...

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09.02.2020

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust on 27 January 2020

January 27 marks the Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism in Germany and the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the ...

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27.01.2020

Robert Menasse awarded China's Zou Taofen Prize for Foreign Novel of the Year

We are pleased to anounce that Robert Menasse has been awarded the 2019 Zou Taofen Prize for Foreign Novel of the Year for The Capital, »a gripping ...

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16.01.2020

Johannes Groschupf receives German Crime Fiction Prize 2019

We are pleased to announce that Johannes Groschupf has been awarded first place at the German Crime Fiction Prize 2019 for his novel Berlin Preppers. ...

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12.01.2020

Christoph Hein awarded the 2019 Prix du Meilleur livre étranger

We are proud to announce that this year's winner of the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in the category »Novel« is Suhrkamp author Christoph Hein ...

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21.11.2019

Hans Magnus Enzensberger - 90th Birthday on 11 November 2019

»One of Germany's leading public intellectuals.« London Review of Books »If Enzensberger didn't exist, he'd have to be invented.« FAZ ...

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11.11.2019

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 awarded to Peter Handke

»Who says that the world's already been discovered?« Suhrkamp Verlag is extremely pleased to see the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature go to Peter ...

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10.10.2019

Clemens J. Setz on the Shortlist for Austrian Book Prize 2019

We are excited to announce that Clemens J. Setz is on the shortlist for the Austrian Book Prize 2019 with his collection of stories The Comfort of ...

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09.10.2019

Robert Menasse and Peter Sloterdijk nominated for the Prix du livre européen 2019

Robert Menasse and Peter Sloterdijk are on the shortlist for the Prix du livre européen 2019. Robert Menasse is nominated for his novel The ...

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03.10.2019

Nora Bossong on the Longlist for the German Book Prize 2019

We are delighted about the Longlist nomination of Rules of Engagement by Nora Bossong for the German Book Prize 2019. Since 2005, the German Book ...

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20.08.2019

Deniz Utlu receives the Literary Prize of the City of Hannover

The jury honours the writer born in Hannover in 1983 both for his debut novel Die Ungehaltenen as well as for his work as a playwright, columnist, ...

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26.06.2019

World Refugee Day on June 20, 2019

Since 2001, June 20 has been celebrated as World Refugee Day. Even though it has been some years now that a day goes by in Germany without media ...

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20.06.2019

On the 90th birthday of Jürgen Habermas

On June 18, 2019, sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas celebrates his 90th birthday. As one of the most prominent followers of the Frankfurt ...

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14.06.2019

Nora Bossong is awarded the 2019 Kranichsteiner Prize for Literature by the German Literary Fund

From the jury's statement: »Nora Bossong writes novels, essays and reportages - and the way she owns all these literary genres is impressive. ...

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03.06.2019

László Darvasi has been awarded the International Literary Prize »Aleksandar Tišma«

László Darvasi has been awarded the International Literary Prize »Aleksandar Tišma« for his collection of short stories, Winter Morning. The ...

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16.05.2019

Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Robert Menasse are nominated for the Premio Strega Europeo 2019

We are delighted to announce that Sasha Marianna Salzmann's Beside Myself and Robert Menasse's The Capital are nominated for the Premio Strega ...

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23.04.2019

Marion Poschmann on the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

We are excited to announce that Marion Poschmann is on the shortlist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize with her novel The Pine Islands. ...

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10.04.2019

Andreas Michalsen published around the world

We are delighted to present to you a covershow of the first published translations of The Nature Cure. A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine. ...

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25.03.2019

On the Occasion of Christa Wolf's 90th Birthday

Christa Wolf, one of the most important German-language authors of the 20th century, would have been celebrating her 90th birthday on March 18, 2019. ...

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18.03.2019

Prof. Dr. Andreas Reckwitz receives the Leibniz Prize 2019

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Andreas Reckwitz receives the Leibniz Prize 2019. The jury states: »Andreas Reckwitz, one of ...

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15.03.2019

Marion Poschmann is longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize

We are excited to announce that Marion Poschmann is on the longlist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize with her novel The Pine Islands. ...

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13.03.2019

Kia Vahland is nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2019

Leonardo da Vinci and the Women - An Artist's Biography by Kia Vahland is nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2019 in the category non-fiction. ...

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14.02.2019

Dževad Karahasan receives the Jeanette Schocken Prize 2019

We are delighted to announce that Bosnian writer Dževad Karahasan receives the Jeanette Schocken Prize 2019. The jury states: »Dzevad ...

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24.01.2019

German Crime Fiction Prize 2019 for Mexico Ring

We are proud to announce that this year's winner of the German Crime Fiction Prize is Suhrkamp author Simone Buchholz with her literary crime novel ...

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22.01.2019

Maria Stepanova receives the Bolshaya Kniga Award

The Russian writer and poet Maria Stepanova has been awarded the most renowned Russian literary prize, the Bolshaya Kniga Award (The Great Book), ...

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05.12.2018

Judith Schalansky receives the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2018

This year the 30.000 Euro Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize goes to Judith Schalansky for her work An Inventory of Certain Losses. The prize will ...

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25.09.2018

Heinz Helle on the shortlist for the Swizz Book Prize 2018

We are excited to announce that Heinz Helle is on the shortlist for the Swiss Book Prize 2018 with his novel Overcoming Gravity. The award is ...

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21.09.2018

Philipp Weiss wins Klaus-Michael Kühne-Prize 2018

For his novel On the Edge of the World Man Sits and Laughs Philipp Weiss has been awarded the €10,000 2018 Klaus-Michael Kühne-Prize. From the ...

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20.09.2018

Stephan Thome on the Shortlist for German Book Prize 2018

We are excited to announce that Stephan Thome is on the shortlist for the German Book Prize 2018 with his novel God of the Barbarians. ...

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14.08.2018

Philipp Weiss receives the 2018 Literary Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation

This year the 15.000 Euro Jürgen Ponto Foundation's Literary Prize for the Support of Young Artists goes to Philipp Weiss for his debut novel People ...

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27.07.2018

Ralf Rothmann wins Uwe-Johnson-Prize 2018

»With their vote for The God of That Summer the members of the 2018 Uwe-Johnson-Prize have decided to honour an author in whose oeuvre the ...

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20.07.2018

Clemens Setz wins the Merck-Kakehashi-Award 2018

We are excited to announce that Clemens Setz has been awarded the Merck-Kakehashi-Award 2018 for Indigo. Merck, one of the leading companies ...

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28.06.2018

Aleida and Jan Assmann win the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2018

The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2018 has been awarded to Aleida and Jan Assmann. Considered one of the most renowned cultural distinctions ...

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12.06.2018

Ulli Lust wins the Max und Moritz-Award 2018

For her graphic novel Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein Ulli Lust is to receive the 2018 Max and Moritz Prize in the category of Best ...

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04.06.2018

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - May 2018

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: For more information please contact the respective Rights Manager.

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04.05.2018

Melinda Nadj Abonji wins the ZKB Schiller Award 2018

We are excited to announce that Melinda Nadj Abonji has been awarded the ZKB Schiller Award 2018 for Tortoise Soldier. From the Jury's ...

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03.05.2018

Esther Kinsky wins the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2018

We are excited to announce that Esther Kinsky has been awarded the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2018 for Grove. From the Jury's ...

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15.03.2018

Three Suhrkamp Authors nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2018

Grove by Esther Kinsky (category: fiction), The Society of Singularities by Andreas Reckwitz (category: non-fiction) and the translation of Serhij ...

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09.02.2018

Robert Menasse wins the German Book Prize 2017 for THE CAPITAL

We are excited to announce that Robert Menasse was awarded the German Book Prize 2017 for his novel The Capital. In its rational ...

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18.10.2017

Three Suhrkamp novels on the Shortlist for German Book Prize 2017

Out of 20 novels originally nominated for the German Book Prize the jury has now chosen six titles for the Shortlist. We are happy to announce that ...

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12.09.2017

Three Suhrkamp authors nominated for German Book Prize 2017

We are proud that three out of twenty titles on the Longlist for the German Book Prize 2017 are published and represented by Suhrkamp. ...

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15.08.2017

Ralf Rothmann has been awarded the 2017 Kleist Prize

The 20,000 euro Kleist Prize this year has gone to writer Ralf Rothmann. In the words of the jury: »Rothmann's literature is characterised by ...

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20.04.2017

German contemporary fiction recently published in translation

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Valerie Fritsch, Winters Garten: Dutch edition published ...

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27.02.2017

Gisela von Wysocki receives the Heinrich-Mann-Prize 2017

The Heinrich-Mann-Prize of the Academy of Arts this year goes to the Berliner essayist, novelist, radio and theatre dramatist and critic Gisela von ...

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23.02.2017

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - December 2016

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First picture: First row (from left to right): Theodor W. Adorno / Gershom ...

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16.12.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - November 2016, Issue 2

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Theodor W. Adorno, Soziologische Schriften I (2nd ...

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25.11.2016

On Peter Weiss' 100th Birthday

Peter Weiss would have been celebrating his 100th birthday today. Author, painter, filmmaker: in the 1960s, Peter Weiss stated that he was »in ...

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08.11.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - October & November 2016

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First picture: First row (from left to right): Theodor W. Adorno / Max Horkheimer, ...

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02.11.2016

The Nobel Prize by Robert Walser

Today, thank God, I'm back in the pink again, which I definitely deserve because I'm a nice person. How was it for me yesterday? I was emotionally ill. ...

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12.10.2016

Suhrkamp Insel Rights Lists for Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 now available

We are delighted to inform you that the Suhrkamp and Insel Rights Lists for Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 are now online and available for download ...

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27.09.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - September 2016

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Anselm Kiefer, Notizbücher (Band 1: 1998-1999): English ...

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19.09.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - August 2016

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, After 1945. Latency as Origin of ...

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17.08.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - July 2016

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Hans Georg Gadamer, Gedicht und Gespräch: Spanish edition ...

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20.07.2016

Marcel Beyer is awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2016

The German Academy for Language and Literature awards the Georg Büchner Prize in 2016 to the writer Marcel Beyer. The prize is endowed with 50.000 ...

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28.06.2016

On the occasion of Ingeborg Bachmann's 90th Birthday

Ingeborg Bachmann would have been celebrating her 90th birthday today. In recent years, Suhrkamp Verlag has published major works from Ingeborg ...

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25.06.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - June 2016

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Hermann Hesse, Demian: Spanish paperback special edition ...

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14.06.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - May 2016

We are delighted to present our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Jürgen Habermas, Texte und Kontexte: Arabic edition ...

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18.05.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - April 2016, Issue 2

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Dieter Senghaas, Zum irdischen Frieden. ...

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26.04.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - April 2016, Issue 1

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Immer das Geld!: Spanish ...

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31.03.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - March 2016

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Ralf Rothmann, Im Frühling sterben: Finnish ...

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14.03.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - February 2016

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wer bin ich und wer bist Du? ...

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17.02.2016

German Crime Fiction Prize 2016 for Day Without a Name

We are proud to announce that this year's winner of the German Crime Fiction Prize is newly acquired Suhrkamp author Friedrich Ani with his literary ...

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21.01.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - January 2016

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Jürgen Habermas, Der philosophische Diskurs der ...

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15.01.2016

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - December 2015, Issue 2

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Alexander Kluge, Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. ...

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15.12.2015

Suhrkamp On Current Issues

Dear colleagues, We might not find the right words ourselves to comment and discuss the terrible events in the world, but our authors have the words. ...

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02.12.2015

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - December 2015, Issue 1

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Walter Benjamin, Deutsche Menschen: Italian edition ...

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30.11.2015

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - November 2015

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Thomas Bernhard, Gedichte (selection): Polish edition ...

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02.11.2015

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - October 2015

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Hermann Hesse, Franz von Assisi: French edition ...

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29.10.2015

Serhij Zhadan receives ANGELUS Award

Ukrainian writer Serhij Zhadan and his Polish translators Michał Petryk and Adam Pomorski have received the ANGELUS Literary Award 2015 for ...

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20.10.2015

Clemens J. Setz receives Wilhelm Raabe-Literary-Award 2015

We are proud to share with you that Clemens J. Setz is to be honoured with the Wilhelm Raabe-Literary-Award 2015 for his novel Die Stunde zwischen ...

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02.10.2015

Suhrkamp presents Classics from the Backlist: Shipwreck with Spectator

Rediscover Hans Blumenberg's essay Shipwreck with Spectator, a classic that offers new dimensions to the understanding of the current situation in ...

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29.09.2015

Just published: Suhrkamp Authors Around the World - September 2015, Issue 1

We are delighted to present to you our latest arrivals: First row (from left to right): Ingeborg Bachmann / Paul Celan, Herzzeit: Czech edition ...

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10.09.2015

Three Suhrkamp authors nominated for German Book Prize 2015

We are proud to present to you the three Suhrkamp authors that have been nominated for the German Book Prize 2015: Valerie Fritsch's dystopian ...

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19.08.2015

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