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All guests of the European Literature Days from 2009 to 2014.
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Der Wettermacher Weber, Peter (The Weathermaker)
Take the Toggenburg Valley, Zurich, the lake, and main train station - add a young protagonist with an ear for local dialects and legends who lies through his teeth about everything without ...
Die Spange Mettler, Michel (The Brace)
Anton Windl is a veritable phenomenon. During an examination, a prehistoric dental brace is found under his gums. As a research expedition into his oral cavity unearths no further insight, dentist ...
Durch und durch Gahse, Zsuzsanna (Passing through)
Zsuzsanna Gahse sits at the window – like E.T.A. Hoffmann’s cousin once sat at the corner window –and looks out onto the street. The street leads from east to west through the village of ...
Invitation to the Bold of Heart Elmiger, Dorothee (Einladung an die Waghalsigen)
Born in 1985, Dorothee Elmiger makes a fascinatingly fearless debut as a novelist. «Einladung an die Waghalsigen» (Invitation to the Bold of Heart) explores paths that lie far away from the ...
The Alp Camenisch, Arno (Sez Ner)
Marvelling at the beauty of the mountain scenery, the tourists hike past the Alpine chalet in their red socks, stopping to take photos of the Alpine herdsman standing outside. Cleaning their ...
Koala Bärfuss, Lukas
What reasons are there for committing suicide? And what reasons for deciding to live? Nothing about the story told in Lukas Bärfuss’s new novel seems normal. For the story culminates in an ...
Olivas Garten Bremer, Alida
... English version is coming .... Die Erzählerin erfährt, dass sie in ihrer alten Heimat Kroatien einen Olivenhain geerbt hat - Anlass dafür, zurück zu gehen, mit nicht absehbaren Folgen.
Unsicherer Grund Neeser, Andreas
A narrator remembers a football game when he was at school, while he was silently watching a beautiful woman in the swimming pool. Or he goes to the theatre in the evening and his heart almost ...
Die Seelensucherin Fioretos, Aris
Aris Fioretos' fascinating novel Stockholm Noir – a much more fitting title for this tale of strange encounters and wrong perceptions than the German Die Seelensucherin ( The Soul Seeker ) ...
Giftige Kleider Scholl, Sabine
In freezing February, Sabine Scholl presents a mystery that takes place in summer, and whose main protagonist, Gina Sonnenfels, comes from Vienna, lives in Berlin, and has “a good nose for the ...
No God in Sight Tyrewala, Altaf
The Berliner Künstlerprogramm of DAAD writes about Atlaf Tyerwalas novel: Homesickness led this young Indian author to literature: born in 1977 in Mumbai (until ...
Neunprozentiger Haushaltessig Maljartschuk, Tanja
Tanja Maljartschuk’s prose texts are accounts of broken lives in the rural province – for instance, in the village of Samagurka or in the street in the Murawjow-Batterie. People are lonely, ...
Buch der Dinge Šteger, Aleš
What do we know of things? What do we know of their secrets and motives that are only clear to those who are observant? Aleš Šteger is one of those people. His poetry volume “Knjiga reč” ...
Kalda Popović, Edo
Turbulent times lead to turbulent lives – and literature, which attempts to capture this turbulence. That is what the Croatian author Edo Popović’s novel, “Kalda”, is all about. The ...
Okaasan – Meine unbekannte Mutter Flašar, Milena Michiko
Okaasan – the book’s title is Japanese and means ‘mother’. The mother’s death is the story’s central theme. The story of how the daughter comes to terms with her loss virtually turns ...
Sandatlas Haugová, Mila (Aus dem Slowak. von Angela Repka)
An atlas is an atlas. But what is a sand atlas? This is the title of a new volume of poetry by Mila Haugová, 2001, published in the “Edition Korrespondenzen” in Vienna. So what is a sand ...
Fuck you, Eu.ro.Pa! Esinencu, Nicoleta (Aus dem Rumän. von Helga Kopp)
“Everyday life in Moldavia is extremely brutal – if I had to explain how it is, one to one, I’d have to become even more coarse. We have a massive identity crisis, and we are Europe’s ...
Ein Chinese auf dem Fahrrad Magnus, Ariel (Aus dem Span. von Silke Kleemann)
Did the Chinaman, Li, really set alight to all the launderettes in Buenos Aires? He is in any case condemned without reliable evidence. After the sentence is pronounced, he therefore takes the ...
Bis auf die Knochen Ritte, Jürgen (Hg. von Jürgen Ritte)
The OuLiPo workshop and its best-known representatives, Queneau, Pastior or Perec are like a kitchen where language is constantly being cooked up. Therefore, it is no accident that the “workshop ...
Zone Enard, Mathias
In 2008, the French Arabic scholar and novelist Mathias Enard published the novel "Zone". His most ambitious and successful book to date, this epic work in one sentence over 500 pages tells of the ...
Stanice tajga Hůlová, Petra
To begin with, I have to admit that I found the photo on this book a bit confusing. The word “Taiga” in the title of Petra Hůlová’s novel is written with a small “t” (in Czech, only ...
Durchleuchtung Schmatz, Ferdinand
A new and wild novel by the writer Ferdinand Schmatz: Durchleuchtung [Illumination]. Obviously if you grew up in Austria, it immediately makes you think of Durchleuchten-Gehen [‘getting yourself ...
A Breathless Hush in the Close Morgan, Ann
A Breathless Hush in the Close is Ann Morgan’s first novel and takes its title from Henry Newbolt’s well-known late nineteenth century poem Vitaï Lampada. The lines 'Play up! Play up! and ...
Don Juan de la Mancha oder Die Erziehung der Lust Menasse, Robert
Don Juan is over the hill. All that he can now manage to do is look back at his life. Nathan has no desire anymore. And for the always groaning Viennese newspaper editor that is anything but a ...
Nkaah Stavarič, Michael
To make childhood the sole topic of a text is a hazardous undertaking. Michael Stavarič does it in his latest book – and the text is surprising, though it is hardly surprising that it is more ...
The Good Plain Cook Roberts, Bethan
Some books are chic simply virtue of their setting. Such a one if The Good Plain Cook by Bethan Roberts. It is the summer of 1936 and a Sussex girl, Kitty Allen, is in search of more ...
