Marjana Gaponenko
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Marjana Gaponenko
Marjana Gaponenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1981. She took private lessons and has been writing in German since she was sixteen. After spending time in Crakow and Dublin she now lives in Mayence and Vienna. Her first novel, Annuschka Blume, was published in 2010. Wer ist Martha? is her first book with Suhrkamp. In 2013, Marjana Gaponenko received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize.
Marjana Gaponenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1981. She took private lessons and has been writing in German since she was sixteen. After spending time in Crakow and Dublin she now lives in Mayence and Vienna. Her first novel, Annuschka Blume, was published in 2010. Wer ist Martha? is her first book with Suhrkamp. In 2013, Marjana Gaponenko received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize.
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2017
Marjana GaponenkoYear of Publication: 2017
The Best German Folk Tales
For centuries they were only passed on orally, and it was not until the 19th century that they were collected and written down: the tales of the Lorelei, the giant Rübezahl, the beautiful...
Rights sold to:
Russia (Libra)
Year of Publication: 2012
Marjana GaponenkoYear of Publication: 2012
Who is Martha?
We won’t give away who Martha is, but we can tell you this much about the protagonist Luka Lewadski: a Ukrainian ornithologist and author of the groundbreaking study On the Mathematical...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (New Vessel Press; English world audio rights sublicense: Listen Up Audiobooks), France (Fayard), Italy (Elliot), Thailand (Legend Books), Bulgaria (Rhizome), Croatia (Hrvatsko Filolosko Drustvo), Turkey (Aylak Adam), Ukraine (Books XXI), Iran (Qoqnoos)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg)