Wilhelm Raabe Literary Award longlist: 5 Suhrkamp authors out of 13 nominated novels!

Bernd Cailloux, born in 1945, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, and radio plays. His novel Das Geschäftsjahr 1968/69, in many ways a precursor to Gutgeschriebene Verluste, received outstanding reviews in the media. The author lives in Berlin.

Anna Katharina Hahn was born in 1970 and studied German and English literature in Hamburg. She lived in Berlin for several years and now lives and writes in Stuttgart. Her previous works include the collection of stories Kavaliersdelikt, for which she was awarded the Clemens Brentano Prize in 2005, as well as the novel Kürzere Tage, which was longlisted for the German Book Prize in 2009. In 2010, Anna Katharina Hahn was awarded the Heimito von Doderer Literary Award.