Michael Krüger

Michael Krüger was born in Saxony in 1943 and lives in Munich. He has published several volumes of poems and short stories, as well as several novels.

Awards (selection)

Eichendorff-Literaturpreis 2017
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2010
Mörike-Preis 2006
Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste 2004
Prix Medicis Etranger 1996
Ernst-Meister-Preis 1994
Peter-Huchel-Preis 1986

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2025

Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2025

Among Poets

In his successful collection of memoires and reflections, Rendezvous with Poets, Michael Krüger only got to scratch the surface of his repository of experiences and anecdotes. As a publisher and editor, but also as a poet and translator, he had the privilege of introducing, promoting, and mourning many more authors.

In his new volume, Among Poets, he again...

Year of Publication: 2023

Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2023

Rendezvous with Poets

In 2013, an era comes to an end in Munich. Michael Krüger, the long-time publisher of Hanser Verlag, retires from his active role in the day-to-day business operations of the publishing house. He didn’t just manage the publishing house and edit the magazine Akzente. He remains active as a poet and write, as a literary critic, editor and translator. He is omnipresent and...

What Happened in the Two Weeks After Returning from Paris

Year of Publication: 2022

Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2022

What Happened in the Two Weeks After Returning from Paris

Everyone seems to know him, but no one knows his name. And those who don’t know him yet are desperate to meet him. Only the narrator, who has been joined by the gentleman with bad manners, wants to get rid of him. He imposed himself on the narrator at Paris Airport, is already lodging in his flat back in Munich, is sitting at his desk preparing a film in the artists’ agency the...

Year of Publication: 2021

Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2021

In the Forest, In the Wooden House

When the Corona virus came over us one year ago, Michael Krüger, suffering from a severe case of shingles, was just starting treatment for his leukaemia. And since his immune defence was...

Rights sold to:

Poland (Instytut Mikolowski), Serbia (Dereta), Bosnia (Lijepa Rijec)

Year of Publication: 2013

Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2013

Seasonal Time Change

This new volume of Michael Krüger’s poetical-lyrical explorations of nature, after Just Before the Storm (2003), Under the Open Sky (2007) and Clarity (2010), is...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), France (selection; Sajat), Denmark (Epilog)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Mondadori)

Year of Publication: 2007

Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2007

The Turin Comedy

Would he have gone to Turin if he had known what awaited him there?

After the suicide of his best friend, Rudolf, the narrator is summoned to attend to his estate. A difficult...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Harcourt), France (Seuil), Bulgaria (Balkani)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Lithuania (Versus aureus)

Year of Publication: 2002

Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2002

The Wrong House

The narrator in Michael Krüger's novella is an editor of a south German newspaper and is supposed to be covering the Librarian's Association congress. During it he goes for a walk, ending up in...

Rights sold to:

France (Seuil)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Russia (Ast Press Kniga), Netherlands (Bezige Bij)