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Foreign Rights List — Frankfurt 2019 Diogenesest• 1952 Rote Kreuze Rote Sasha Filipenko Filipenko Sasha Sasha Filipenko red crosses Roman · Diogenes Daniela Krien Love in Case of Emergency »The polyphony and »This is the one book »This is a book which More than 100’000 copies of the German edition sold so far the way in which every that I would like to hand engages with twenty-first single voice is being to everyone who wants century debates around # 1 on the Spiegel Bestseller List for three weeks led midway between to know something about notions of femininity and 25 weeks in the Top Ten of the Spiegel Bestseller List the protagonist and the contemporary German feminism, empathising Shortlisted for the ›German Independent Booksellers’ Prize‹ 2019 narrator constitute literature, the country and with an array of perspec- the special quality of its people.« tives on the subject.« this book.« Denis Scheck / WDR, Cologne New Books in German, London Burkhard Müller / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich »Few intelligently enter- »Love in Case of »Whatever choices women taining German novels Emergency leaves an make, whichever option im Ernstfall Liebe Die don’t ooze relevance yet impression by giving they decide for or against – are not afraid of existen- an account of women none of them can avoid tial seriousness. who are looking for new feeling guilty.« Daniela Krien Fortunately, Krien has ways to be happy after Ursula März / Daniela Krien Krien Daniela Die Liebe written one.« classic relationship Die Zeit, Hamburg Rights sold: im Ernstfall Rainer Moritz / NZZ, Zurich models have failed.« Catalan (Bromera) Roman · Diogenes # 1 Bestseller Carsten Otte / Chinese/CN Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin (Beijing October Literature & Art) Danish (Arvids) Love in Case of Emergency Dutch (Ambo/Anthos) Novel, 288 pages, 2019 English/UK (MacLehose) »With a simple style »A novel that shows »This is a touching and English/US (HarperVia) World rights are handled by Diogenes. that develops its own how much power there moving read, without French (Albin Michel) Film rights are available. poetry, Krien guides is in the female gender. ideological furore, but Hebrew (Keter) the reader through the And that is a reason with an incredibly exact Italian (Garzanti) English sample translation available. twists and turns of these to be optimistic again.« stance on everyday ex- Lithuanian (Gelmes) women’s biographies.« Katja Kraft / Münchner Merkur periences.« Norwegian (Forlaget Press) Melanie Mühl / Julia Schröder / Romanian (Humanitas) Frankfurter Allgemeine Woche Deutschlandfunk, Berlin Slovenian (Mladinska Knjiga) Spanish (Grijalbo) Daniela Krien’s books have been published in 21 languages. FICTION Someday We’ll Tell Each Daniela Krien Other Everything Muldental There are things that can be told straight By the writer of the Spiegel bestseller away, others have their own time for telling, Love in Case of Emergency: 3 weeks at and some are untellable. Cover # 1 with over 100’000 copies sold. The debut novel by bestselling author Bestselling author Daniela Krien’s short Daniela Krien. Coming story collection, including a previously unpublished story and a foreword by Muldental Summer 1990 and the border between East and the writer. West Germany has all but disappeared. Maria Soon will soon be seventeen. She lives with Johannes A country collapsed – what happens to the on his parents’ farm, in the ›spider rooms‹ in the people who once lived there? attic. She is fragile and dreamy, preferring to curl Every radical change has its victims, even a up with The Brothers Karamazov than go to peaceful revolution. Daniela Krien bears witness Daniela Krien Krien Daniela school. to the fate of a generation by telling stories of Forty-year-old Henner lives on the neighbouring people whose lives lost their equilibrium at a farm, alone. The people from the village are wary historical turning point. She writes about deep of him; he is surrounded by an air of tragedy despair and loss of orientation. Yet these to do with his past and yet he is a man whose miniature novels go beyond individual fates; Daniela Krien charismatic aura causes jealousy. One day a they sketch out a portrait of the people of today. Muldental coincidental glance, the next an unintentional A book about keeping one’s head above water touch, and Maria begins to feel a powerful and despite it all, about going on despite it all, about unfamiliar yearning that drives her into Henner’s surviving and coping. Diogenes house and into his arms. Diogenes First published by Graf Verlag, Munich in 2011 »It’s down to the beauty and First published by Graf Verlag, Munich in 2014 Rights currently sold: Novel clarity of Krien’s language that she Stories 240 pages, 2021 has created something in which 240 pages, March 2020 English (MacLehose) many people recognize themselves.« French (Flammarion) World rights are handled by Diogenes. Maren Keller / Der Spiegel, Hamburg World rights are handled by Diogenes. Portuguese/BRA (Record) Film rights are available. Film adaptation in preparation, directed »This short prose packs a punch.« by Emily Atef (3 Days in Quiberon). Alexander Kosenina / Daniela Krien’s books Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung have been published in 21 languages. daniela krien, born in Neu-Kaliß, East Germany, in 1975, studied communication, media, and cultural studies in Leipzig. Since 2010 she has been a freelance writer. Her debut novel Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything has been translated into 15 languages. In 2015 she was awarded with the ›Nicolaus Born Debut Prize‹. Her novel Love in Case of Emergency was # 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list for three weeks. Daniela Krien lives in Leipzig with her two daughters. Verlag © Diogenes / Maurice Haas Photo: FICTION Sasha Filipenko »I’d like to tell you an incredible story. Not a Red Crosses story actually, more a biography of fear. I’d like to tell you how horror grabs a person out of One fights against forgetting, the other would the blue and changes their whole life.« like nothing more than that. »Very impressive, but perhaps some other time?« A great Russian novel in only 280 pages – »Don’t you believe me? Alright . You know, from Stalin’s terror to the present day. about a year ago I was standing right where you’re She is suffering from Alzheimer’s, losing more and more memories. But once you meet this standing now. On 31 December. It was snowing, old lady, you’ll never forget her. and the 20th century was coming to an end. Per- Kreuze Rote Alexander is a young man whose life has been fectly normal, no unusual events, only a few more brutally torn in two. Tatiana Alexeyevna is hours to go. I expected nothing at all of the end over ninety and getting more forgetful by the of the century, when suddenly there was a ring at day. The old lady tells her new neighbour her life story, encompassing the entire Russian 20th the door. It was the postman! Imagine that! century and all its horrors. And she tells him: Filipenko Sasha A real-life postman! On 31 December! And he »God is afraid of me. There are too many Sasha brought me the letter I’d been waiting for, the uncomfortable questions coming His way.« Filipenko Bit by bit, the two recognize their own broken Rote Kreuze entire second half of my life . « hearts in each other and forge an unlikely friendship, a pact against forgetting. Roman · Diogenes »An important, necessary »Sasha Filipenko is one of book. Both for Russia, those young writers who which suffers from historic immediately gained a re- Original edition published 2017 by amnesia, and Europe putation for being a serious »A tour de force. A book full of Vremya, Moscow, under the title Krasny Krest which is also running the risk author. If you want to get sound and fury, but also greatness Novel of losing its historic memory.« inside the head of modern, and gentleness.« 288 pages, March 2020 Dmitry Glukhovsky (Russian author) young Russia, read Filipenko.« Astrid de Larminat / Le Figaro littéraire, Paris Svetlana Alexievich (›Nobel prize‹ winner 2015) Rights sold: World rights are handled by Diogenes. Croatian (Bozicevic) Film rights are available. Czech (Pistorius) Dutch (Meridiaan) Sasha Filipenko’s books sasha filipenko, born in Minsk in 1984, is a Belorussian author English/world (Europa Editions) have been published in 10 languages. who writes in Russian. After abandoning his classical music training French (Syrtes) he studied literature in St. Petersburg and worked as a journalist, Hungarian (Európa) screenwriter and author for a satire show. Red Crosses is the first to Italian (Edizioni E/O) be published in German. Sasha Filipenko is a passionate football Polish (Agora) fan and lives with his family in St. Petersburg. Verlag © Diogenes Lienhard Lukas Photo: FICTION »Simone Lappert is a stroke of luck for literature.« Simone Lappert Dagmar Kaindl / Buchkultur, Vienna Shadows Cast The debut novel by the author of the best- Der SprungDer selling novel Jump is an unusual love story Shortlisted for the that proudly stands up to fear. 24525 ›Swiss Book Prize‹ 2019 Featured in Ada is a talented young actress but her life is Simone Lappert Lappert Simone New Books in German ruled by anxieties. So much so that she can Simone only find peace through complex rituals and Lappert Der Sprung barely leaves her flat. Roman · Diogenes Owing months of rent, her landlord springs Bestseller his grandson Juri on her as a flatmate. For Ada, the young man is an imposition, an Jump Novel, 2019 invasion – or is he perhaps the best thing that could happen to her? Simone Lappert »In this dance of the wounded, Lappert »Jump stands out for its richly is in keeping with the times and evocative writing, its gentle, Wurfschatten gets up close and personal with current sensuous style and its unusually social developments.« gripping storyline.« »A small literary sensation.