Christoph Ribbat
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Christoph Ribbat
Christoph Ribbat, born in 1968, is Professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn and has previously held positions in Bochum, Boston and Basel. His book Im Restaurant was shortlisted for the Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse and was translated into fourteen languages.
Christoph Ribbat, born in 1968, is Professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn and has previously held positions in Bochum, Boston and Basel. His book Im Restaurant was shortlisted for the Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse and was translated into fourteen languages.
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2022
Christoph RibbatYear of Publication: 2022
Becoming Kathrine Talbot
Ilse Gross is fourteen and all alone when she flees Nazi Germany. Her family stays behind. Arriving in the UK, she finds work as a maid, but longs to be a writer. And seven years after the end of the...
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English world rights (Vallentine Mitchell)
Year of Publication: 2020
Christoph RibbatYear of Publication: 2020
The Breathing Instructor
A lady with a slight German accent teaches mindfulness in New York City: how to focus on one’s breathing, how to feel the body and survive the stress of living in a big city. Her studio is an...
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English world rights (Transcript)
Year of Publication: 2017
Christoph RibbatYear of Publication: 2017
Germany for a Season
Only one »foreigner« per team: in 1977 that’s the limit in the Federal Basketball League. The foreigner in Göttingen is named Wilbert Olinde and has just arrived from Los Angeles. The Germans are surprised by him, and he in turn is surprised by the Germans. He only intends to stay for a year. But then things turn out quite differently indeed.
Germany for a...
Year of Publication: 2016
Christoph RibbatYear of Publication: 2016
In the Restaurant
Eating is never all that’s going on in a restaurant. Since the first »restored« establishments opened in 18th-century Paris, visiting a restaurant is also about seeing and being seen, about...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Pushkin Press), Spanish world rights (Planeta/Gastro), Catalan rights (Grup 62/Portic), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai 99), Arabic world rights (Kalima), Italy (Marsilio), Netherlands (Meridiaan | Atlas/Contact), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Sweden (Lind & Co.), Finland (Aula & Co.), Poland (Media Rodzina), Czech Republic (Prostor), Greece (Hestia)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Korea (The Open Books)Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Headroom Sound)