Ariane Koch

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Ariane Koch
Ariane Koch, born in Basel in 1988, studied fine arts and interdisciplinarity. She writes – also in collaboration – theatre and performance texts, radio plays and prose. Her texts have won numerous awards and have been performed in places like Basel, Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul and Moscow. Ariane Koch has been granted various fellowships, including one from the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris (2020). She has been teaching at the Institute for Aesthetic Practice and Theory at the Basel School of Art and Design since 2019. Die Aufdrängung is her debut novel.
Ariane Koch, born in Basel in 1988, studied fine arts and interdisciplinarity. She writes – also in collaboration – theatre and performance texts, radio plays and prose. Her texts have won numerous awards and have been performed in places like Basel, Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul and Moscow. Ariane Koch has been granted various fellowships, including one from the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris (2020). She has been teaching at the Institute for Aesthetic Practice and Theory at the Basel School of Art and Design since 2019. Die Aufdrängung is her debut novel.
Awards (selection)
Swiss Literature Award 2022 for Die Aufdrängung
»aspekte« Prize for Literature 2021 for Die Aufdrängung
»aspekte« Prize for Literature 2021 for Die Aufdrängung
Swiss Literature Award 2022 for Die Aufdrängung
»aspekte« Prize for Literature 2021 for Die Aufdrängung
»aspekte« Prize for Literature 2021 for Die Aufdrängung
PUBLICATIONS
Latest first

Year of Publication: 2024
Ariane KochYear of Publication: 2024
Sick Dogs
Poch the greyhound is one of the most successful racing dogs in the world, a bona fide star of the track. But then one day, a brain condition causes her to simply keel over. She wakes up in the dog hospital, surrounded by a flurry of vets desperately puzzling over her diagnosis. Then the Hellcat appears, offering the dog’s brain a valuable and supposedly healing trade: pain relief for half a...

Year of Publication: 2021
Ariane KochYear of Publication: 2021
Overstaying
A young woman ekes out a living in a house that is too big in a town that is too small right by a triangular mountain. When a guest turns up, she takes him in without hesitation. The guest is as...
Rights sold to:
USA & Canada (Dorothy Project), UK & Commonwealth (Pushkin), Spanish world rights (Periférica), Russia (Aletheia), France (Robert Laffont), Italy (Ibis), Netherlands (Oevers), Denmark (Korridor), Sweden (Faethon), Poland (Drzazgi; Polish audio book: Virtualo), Turkey (Ayrinti), Greece (Lemvos), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)
DISCOVER
News
Ariane Koch's Overstaying Longlisted for Republic of Consciousness Prize for Independent Presses
Overstaying is one of ten titles shortlisted for the prize, which is endowed with a total prize pool of $35,000.News
Ariane Koch, Deniz Utlu and Dana Vowinckel Longlisted for the »Text & Sprache« Prize 2024
Ariane Koch is longlisted for Kranke Hunde, Deniz Utlu for Father's Sea, and Dana Vowinckel for The World in a Ziplock Bag .News