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Book factsheet Bernhard Schlink General Fiction, Compulsory Reading, Gift The Reader Books 208 pages 11.6 × 18.4 cm Published by Diogenes as Der Vorleser September 1995 Original title: Der Vorleser World rights are handled by Diogenes Rights currently sold: Albanian (Dudaj) Armenian (Zangak-97) Azerbaijanian (Qanun) Catalan (Enciclopèdia Catalana) Chinese/CN (Yilin) Chinese/TW (Crown) Croatian (Vorto Palabra) Czech (Euromedia) Dutch (Cossee) English/world (Pantheon) Finnish (WSOY) French (Gallimard) Galician (Hugin e Munin) Georgian (Intelekti) Greek (Kritiki) Hebrew (Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir) Hungarian (21.Század) Italian (Neri Pozza) Japanese (Shinchosha) Korean (Sigongsa) Latin (Leo Latinus) Latvian (Zvaigzne) Mongolian (Monsudar) Montenegrin (Nova Knjiga) Norwegian (Gyldendal Norsk) Polish (REBIS) Portuguese/PT (ASA/Leya) Romanian (Polirom) Russian (Azbooka-Atticus) Serbian (Plato) Slovak (Slovart) Slovenian (Cankarjeva Zalozba) Spanish/world (Anagrama) Thai (Library House) Turkish (Iletisim) Uzbek (Faylasuflar) Vietnamese (Nha Nam) Bestseller On the way home, a fifteen-year-old boy called Michael Berg gets into difficulties. A woman in her mid-thirties helps him out. Some # 1 New York Times Bestseller time later, the boy takes her a bunch of flowers as a way of saying Spiegel Bestseller thank you. He visits her again. Hanna is the first woman he has ever desired, and a secret love begins. But there is something dark and mysterious about Hanna, and she reacts irritably to his questions Movie adaptations about who she is. One day she disappears. She vanishes from 2011: Das Wochenende Michael's life, but not from his thoughts. As a student of law he Director: Nina Grosse encounters Hanna again in court. The young man gets a shock when Cast: Katja Riemann, Sebastian Koch, Barbara he realises he has loved a criminal. He can see no rhyme nor reason in Auer the way Hanna behaves during the trial. That is, until the scales fall from his eyes. For Hanna is not only guilty of a cruel crime, she also 2009: The Reader has a desperately well-protected secret. The past is unveiled – Director: Stephen Daldry Michael's past love, and the past of Germany. Michael realises that Screenplay: David Hare he cannot escape from either of them. A woman who is difficult to Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth, Volker Bruch, understand or accept, either for Michael or the reader. And the Hannah Herzsprung und Alexandra Maria Lara dilemma of a generation. 1 / 3 Movie adaptations (cont'd) 2008: The Other Man Director: Richard Eyre Screenplay: Richard Eyre Cast: Liam Neeson , Laura Linney und Antonio Banderas 1991: Der Tod kam als Freund Director: Nico Hoffmann Cast: Martin Benrath, Hannelore Elsner, Heino Ferch, Marianne Hoppe Awards 2014 ›Pak Kyong-ni Prize‹ der südkoreanischen Kulturstiftung Toji für sein schriftstellerisches Schaffen 2003 ›Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse‹ für Der Vorleser 2002 ›Preis des German-British Forum‹ für Photo: Gaby Gerster / © Diogenes Verlag sein Gesamtwerk 2001 Ernennung zum ›Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur‹ Bernhard Schlink, born near Bielefeld in 1944, is a lawyer and lives in 2001 Finnischer Literaturpreis ›Eeva Berlin and New York. His novel The Reader, published in 1995 and Joenpelto-Preis‹ der Gemeinde Lohja turned into a movie by Stephen Daldry in 2009, has been translated 2000 ›Ehrengabe‹ der Heinrich-Heine- into more than 50 languages and established Bernhard Schlink’s Gesellschaft in Düsseldorf 2000 ›Evangelischer Buchpreis‹ des worldwide renown as an author. He has been awarded with national Deutschen Verbandes Evangelischer and international prizes like the German ›Bundesverdienstkreuz Büchereien für Der Vorleser (Order of Merit) 1st Class‹, the French ›Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la 2000 ›Sonderkulturpreis‹ der japanischen Legion d’Honneur‹ and the Italian ›Grinzane Cavour Prize‹. Tageszeitung Mainichi Shinbun, der jedes Jahr an einen japanischen Buchbestseller vergeben wird, für Der Vorleser 1999 Erstmals verliehener ›WELT- Literaturpreis‹ für sein literarisches Schaffen 1997 ›Grinzane-Cavour-Preis‹ (Italien) für Der Vorleser 1997 ›Hans-Fallada-Preis‹ der Stadt Neumünster für Der Vorleser 1997 ›Prix Laure Bataillon‹ (Frankreich) für Der Vorleser (Auszeichnung für den Autor sowie für den Übersetzer Bernard Lortholary) 1993 ›Deutscher Krimi-Preis‹ des Bochumer The Granddaughter The 20th of July Colours of Farewell Olga Krimi Archivs für Selbs Betrug 368 pages 96 pages 240 pages 320 pages 1989 Autorenpreis deutschsprachige 2021 2021 2020 2018 Kriminalliteratur ›Der Glauser‹ für Die Bestseller Bestseller gordische Schleife Praise The Reader »A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel. ›The Reader‹ ensnares both heart and mind.« – Los Angeles Times »Schlink writes sparkling novels with political Explorations The Woman on the Stairs Thoughts on Writing Summer Lies 288 pages 256 pages 96 pages 288 pages relevance and an awareness of the German 2015 2014 2011 2010 past.« – Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin Bestseller Bestseller »A literary event.« – Volker Hage / Der Spiegel, Hamburg »Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex. Mr. Schlink tells his story with marvelous directness and simplicity.« – The New York Times 2 / 3 Praise (cont'd) »A sensitive, daring, deeply moving book about the tragic results of fear and the redemptive power of understanding.« – Ruth Rendell »For generations to come, people will be reading and marvelling over Bernhard Schlink's The Reader.« – Evening Standard, London Bernhard Schlink The Weekend Guilt of the Past The Homecoming Verifications »Schlink knows the depths of the human soul 240 pages 192 pages 384 pages 368 pages all too well. The writer and judge proves with 2008 2007 2006 2005 each of his books that he knows how to Movie Adaptation Bestseller transform German history into literature.« – Bestseller ZeitPunkt, Leipzig Self's Murder Flights of Love Self's Deception The Gordian Knot 272 pages 320 pages 304 pages 272 pages 2001 2000 1992 1988 Movie Adaptation Award winner Award winner Self's Punishment 352 pages 1987 Movie Adaptation 3 / 3.