Judith Schalansky
Judith Schalansky, born in Greifswald in 1980, lives in Berlin where she works as a writer, editor and book designer. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has won several prizes. Verzeichnis einiger Verluste received the Premio Strega Internazionale 2020 and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the Europese Literatuurprijs 2021.
Judith Schalansky, born in Greifswald in 1980, lives in Berlin where she works as a writer, editor and book designer. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has won several prizes. Verzeichnis einiger Verluste received the Premio Strega Internazionale 2020 and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the Europese Literatuurprijs 2021.
WORTMELDUNGEN-Literaturpreis 2023 (Germany)
Carl-Amery-Literaturpreis 2022 (Germany)
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021 (UK) for Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 (UK) with Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize 2021 (USA) for Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
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WORTMELDUNGEN-Literaturpreis 2023 (Germany)
Carl-Amery-Literaturpreis 2022 (Germany)
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021 (UK) for Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 (UK) with Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize 2021 (USA) for Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Best Translation Award 2021 (Japan) for Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Openbook Awards 2021 (Taiwan) for Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2021 (USA) with Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Longlisted for the Europese Literatuurprijs 2021 (Netherlands) with Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Longlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature 2021 (Switzerland) with Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Premio Strega Europeo 2020 (Italy)
Gutenberg Prize 2021 (Germany)
Christine Lavant Prize 2020 (Germany)
Wilhelm Raabe Prize for Literature 2018 (Germany)
›Most beautiful book of the year‹ by the Book Art Foundation (Germany) for Der Hals der Giraffe 2012
›Most beautiful book of the year‹ by the Book Art Foundation (Germany) for Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln 2009
Residential grant from Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2009
PUBLICATIONS
An Inventory of Losses
»There are no gains without corresponding losses, no losses without corresponding gains.« Agnes Heller
»Western man’s inclination to value what is extinct more than what still exists...
USA & Canada (New Directions), UK & Commonwealth (MacLehose Press), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Catalan rights (Mès llibres), Chinese simplex rights (China CITIC Press / Sight), Chinese complex rights (Locus), Russia (Ad Marginem), Portuguese rights (Elsinore), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Ypsilon Éditeur), Italy (Nottetempo), Netherlands (Meridiaan), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Pequod Press), Norway (Forlaget Press), Finland (Osuuskunta Poesia), Korea (Mujintree), Japan (Kawade), Thailand (Gamme Magie Editions), Indonesia (Yayasan Pustaka Obor), Poland (Ha!Art), Hungary (Corvina), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (Trei), Croatia (Mizantrop), Serbia (Dereta), Turkey (CAN), Greece (Antipodes), Mongolia (Monsudar)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
The Giraffe's Neck
Three days in the life of a biology teacher – the last of her kind, a relic of...
English world rights (Bloomsbury), Spanish world rights (Random House Mondadori), Chinese simplex rights (People's Literature Publishing House), Russia (Text), Portuguese rights (Elsinore), France (Ypsilon), Italy (nottetempo), Netherlands (Meridiaan), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Sweden (Pequod Press), Norway (Press), Finland (Tammi), Korea (Galmuri), Japan (Kawade), Poland (Ha!Art), Czech Republic (Paseka), Hungary (Typotex), Bulgaria (Geia-Libris), Romania (Allfa), Estonia (Tänapäev), Bosnia (Imprimatur), Turkey (Ayrinti), Albanian (Pema)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese complex rights (Locus), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Objetiva), Macedonia (Blesok)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg), German Radio Play (SWR), German Stage Adaptations (Schauspiel Frankfurt - also performed at various other German Theatres; Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin)