Clemens J. Setz
German Book Prize 2023 (longlist) for Monde vor der Landung
Franz-Nabl-Preis 2023
Georg-Büchner-Preis 2021
Kleist-Preis 2020
Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis 2020
Berliner Literaturpreis 2019
Merck Kakehashi Award 2018 for Indigo (Japan)
Literaturpreis der Steiermark 2017
Wilhelm-Raabe-Preis 2015 for Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre
Literaturpreis des...
German Book Prize 2023 (longlist) for Monde vor der Landung
Franz-Nabl-Preis 2023
Georg-Büchner-Preis 2021
Kleist-Preis 2020
Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis 2020
Berliner Literaturpreis 2019
Merck Kakehashi Award 2018 for Indigo (Japan)
Literaturpreis der Steiermark 2017
Wilhelm-Raabe-Preis 2015 for Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre
Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft 2013
Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2012 for Indigo
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2011 for Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes
Bremer Literaturpreis 2010 for Die Frequenzen
Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2009 for Die Frequenzen
Ernst-Willner-Preis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 2008
»As evil as Nabokov, as virtuosic as David Foster Wallace.« Welt am Sonntag
»One of the highest hopes of German literature.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»As evil as Nabokov, as virtuosic as David Foster Wallace.« Welt am Sonntag
»One of the highest hopes of German literature.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
PUBLICATIONS
Pugfish
Space in Its Own Fur
Moons before the Landing
Worms in the early twenties of the last century. Peter Bender, a former lieutenant pilot in the German Army, makes a name for himself as the founder of a new religious community and with the...
Spanish world rights (H&O Editores), Italy (La Nave di Teseo)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Roof Music)
The Triumph of the Clematis in Europe
Life plans are worrisome worlds apart, transitions and nuances threaten to disappear in the public debate. David is dead, as published by the influencer Tim and some journalists, but from the...
Chinese simplex rights (One-Way Street Journal)
The Bees and the Invisible
Pure meaning, pure poetry – this idea seems to worry and spur on people throughout the centuries. It is the driving force behind the invention of languages like Esperanto, Volapük or...
Spanish world rights (H&O Editores), Korea (Eulyoo), Esperanto world rights (Mondial)
The Comfort of Round Things
An Alsatian soldier in the First World War discovers the constellation of the Great Young Kid in the night sky, but it is so awful that he can’t tell anyone about it. A young man, who has fallen...
Russia (Symposium), France (Actes Sud), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Japan (Kokusho Kankokai), Poland (Filtry), Greece (Gutenberg), Ukraine (Krapky)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Griot)
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Imagine you’re a famous writer and are asked to give an extensive interview. You’re expected to disclose information about your interests and intellectual preferences, about the premises and...
Spanish world rights (H&O Editores)
The Hour Between Woman and Guitar
France (Jacqueline Chambon), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Bulgaria (Paradox)
Till Eulenspiegel
Happy as Lead in a Corn Field
»Some months ago«, writes Clemens Setz, »I found some old stories in a folder that I had written when I was eighteen or nineteen. Leafing through the...
The Ostrich Trumpet
Indigo
In the northern part of Styria, Austria, lies Helianau, a boarding school for children suffering from a mysterious condition known as indigo syndrome. Everyone who comes to close to them is struck...
USA (W. W. Norton / Liveright), UK (Serpent's Tail), Chinese simplex rights (CITIC Press / Sight), France (Jacqueline Chambon), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Netherlands (Leesmagazijn), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Korea (Eulyoo), Japan (Kokusho Kankokai), Croatia (Hena Com), Greece (Gutenberg)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese complex rights (China Times), Czech Republic (Fra), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Funtasy)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Roof Music)
Love in the Times of the Mahlstädter Child
A woman who has herself locked in a cage in her own kitchen; a man who lives all by himself in the innermost part of a distant planet; an aging poet in a crib who becomes the core of the...
Chinese simplex rights (CITIC Press / Sight), Arabic world rights (Al'Asreya), France (Actes Sud / Jacqueline Chambon), Czech Republic (Fra), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Funtasy), Romania (Univers), Macedonia (Blesok)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Denmark (Vandkunsten)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Griot)