Suhrkamp Insel Rights List Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 www.suhrkamp.de/foreignrights Authors and Estates represented by Suhrkamp/Insel A selection Theodor W. Adorno Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Angelika Neuwirth Robert Alexy Jürgen Habermas Hans Erich Nossack Juri Andruchowytsch Anna Katharina Hahn Albert Ostermaier Friedrich Ani Michael Hampe Katja Petrowskaja Ingeborg Bachmann Peter Handke Andreas Pflüger Zsófia Bán Christoph Hein Marion Poschmann Wolfgang Bauer Heinz Helle Doron Rabinovici Ulrich Beck Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Andreas Reckwitz Jurek Becker Dieter Henrich Bärbel Reetz Ulla Berkéwicz Hermann Hesse Christoph Ribbat Thomas Bernhard Wolfgang Hildesheimer Hartmut Rosa Barbara Beuys Ludwig Hohl Ralf Rothmann Marcel Beyer Axel Honneth Sasha Marianna Salzmann Ernst Bloch Eva Illouz Judith Schalansky Hans Blumenberg Rahel Jaeggi Wilhelm Schmid Felix Bohr Uffa Jensen Gershom Scholem Karl Heinz Bohrer Hans Joas Lutz Seiler Szilárd Borbély Uwe Johnson Clemens J. Setz Friedrich von Borries Hans Jonas Peter Sloterdijk Nora Bossong Dževad Karahasan Manfred Sommer Volker Braun Anna Kim Andrzej Stasiuk Bertolt Brecht Esther Kinsky Maria Stepanova Hermann Broch Julia Kissina Wolfgang Streeck Simone Buchholz Alexander Kluge Carlo Strenger Bernd Cailloux Wolfgang Koeppen Peter Szondi Paul Celan Siegfried Kracauer Uwe Tellkamp Ann Cotten Benjamín Labatut Philipp Ther Sigrid Damm Christian Lehnert Stephan Thome Zoltán Danyi Svenja Leiber Hans Traxler László Darvasi Gertrud Leutenegger Hans-Ulrich Treichel Ljubko Deresch Sibylle Lewitscharoff Galsan Tschinag Ulrike Edschmid Niklas Luhmann Ernst Tugendhat Nana Ekvtimishvili Thomas Macho Peter Turrini Hans Magnus Enzensberger Enis Maci Siegfried Unseld Urs Faes Nicolas Mahler Kevin Vennemann Erika Fischer-Lichte Andreas Maier Martin Walser Marieluise Fleißer Philipp Manow Robert Walser Rainer Forst Friederike Mayröcker Peter Weiss Manfred Frank Thomas Meinecke Philipp Weiss Max Frisch Robert Menasse Lambert Wiesing Valerie Fritsch Christoph Menke Josef Winkler Markus Gabriel Winfried Menninghaus Katharina Winkler Steinweg Heike Photo: Gunther Geltinger Andreas Michalsen Christa Wolf André Georgi Alice Miller Raul Zelik Dagmar von Gersdorff Heiner Müller Serhij Zhadan Rainald Goetz Stefan Müller-Doohm Ulf Erdmann Ziegler Durs Grünbein Melinda Nadj Abonji Slavoj Žižek Literary Fiction Literary Fiction »Where others might still be searching for the appropriate language to capture and describe the mess of the big wide Nora Bossong LONGLISTED FOR THE SZ world, Bossong has found it in that very place.« GERMAN BOOK Rules of Engagement PRIZE 2019 »You don’t even know what people are capable of when they’re not crying.« 2017: After postings with the UN in New Nora Bossong York and Burundi, Mira is working for Rules of Engagement the United Nations Office at Geneva and Novel (Original title: Schutzzone. mediates talks on the reunification of Roman) Cyprus. At a reception at the luxury hotel 332 pages Beau-Rivage, she encounters Milan, with Clothbound whose family she has lived for a few months September 2019 after her parents’ separation in 1994. Even though Milan is married with a son and is International Sales: soon going to move his family to The Hague, r Netherlands (Wereld- the two begin an affair. bibliotheek); Domestic 2012-2017: During her years of working Rights Sales: German for the UN, Mira has often asserted herself Audiobook (DAV) against the doubts of her superiors and was deployed to conflict areas time and again. Steinweg Heike Photo: Nora Bossong, born in 1982 One of her talents has helped her with that: in Bremen, is a writer of poetry, Mira gets the most tight-lipped people to talk novels and essays, and has – generals, militiamen, important politicians »Nora Bossong is one of been the recipient of several who unexpectedly confide in her. During her the intellectually most awards for these, including time in war-torn Burundi, Mira covered for a the Peter Huchel Prize, the general who had taken part in a massacre for stimulating and curious Art Prize Berlin and the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis months because she believed that he could voices of her generation.« 2019. Her works have been be an important agent in the democratic Denis Scheck translated into various restoration of the country. But in light of the languages. renewed crisis the country finds itself in, her Selected Backlist: decision seems all the more unjustified. Her actions in the past could not just have ethical Kreuzzug mit Hund (2018) International Sales: English but also legal consequences in the present. world rights (Seagull) Rules of Engagement is told in premoni- tions and flashbacks from Mira’s perspec- tive. In her masterfully crafted novel, Nora Bossong explores fundamental questions in private relationships as well as on the grand stage of politics in a clear-sighted and empathetic manner and juxtaposes the conflicts of the past with the hopes for reconciliation. What do trust and responsibility mean? In what way are protection and authority intertwined? »Nora Bossong finds poetic images for the How does testimony relate to truth? Who sits in judgement on that? And is dilemmas of our time.« Frankfurter Rundschau peace a corruptible makeshift solution or something that can succeed permanently after all? 2 3 Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Emma Braslavsky Ann Cotten The Night Was Pale, the Lights Lyophilia Were Twinkling »We wanted to be better, but at the same time An urban fairy tale with a morbid sense of humour didn’t want to change.« Berlin, in a near future. The city thrives Emma Braslavsky Ann Cotten has grown up, a fact which Ann Cotten thanks to the Hubot industry: Robotics The Night Was Pale, the catapults us somewhat into the future. She Lyophilia companies create artificial partners indis- Lights Were Twinkling claims that all she is interested in now is (Original title: Lyophilia) tinguishable from real humans; every kind Novel a constructive approach to a functioning, 463 pages (Original title: Die Nacht Clothbound of wish for a relationship can be fulfilled, reasonable life for everyone (if possible). war bleich, die Lichter March 2019 unconditional private bliss and the complete A philanthropic robot, so to speak. But her blinkten. Roman) abolition of loneliness are just about to strangely labyrinthine yet overly respectful 270 pages Rights available become reality. But the number of suicides Clothbound way of confronting problems still shows has increased tenfold. Because the new traces of the experiences she gathered as a August 2019 Ann Cotten, born in Iowa in beings have mastered the art of simulating young poet. 1982, grew up in Vienna. She love, but they can’t take any responsibility Rights available In Proteus both the eternally young has been living in Berlin since for those they live with. More and more 2006. In 2011, she spent four protagonist and his lover, a successful people perish of social alienation. That’s why Emma Braslavsky, born months in Nagoya, Japan. For Slovenian politician with two children, are Roberta comes on the market: She is designed in Erfurt in 1971, has been her first poetry collection, working as a free-lance author exported into a parallel universe in which Fremdwörterbuchsonette to find the relatives of the people who have and curator since 1999. In any thought at all becomes reality. (2007), she was awarded the committed suicide to save the social welfare 2007, her debut novel Aus In the meantime, however, the aging Reinhard Preissnitz Prize and department the funeral costs. If she fails, she dem Sinn was awarded the the Clemens Brentano Prize inhabitants of the settlement asteroid Amore will be taken apart and her components sold Uwe-Johnson-Advancement for Literature of the city of (KAFUN), which went bankrupt shortly after to manufacturers of domestic robots. And Award as well as the Franz Heidelberg. For Florida-Räume Tumler Literary Prize and its foundation, continue to hold to clichés (2010), she received the not everyone is invested in the success of her was nominated for the and running gags. They hope to discover an Hermann Hesse Literature investigations. Buddenbrookhaus Debut Prize. end to grief, which proves to be a greater Prize. In 2014, Ann Cotten was Her second novel, Das Blaue danger than being without the Internet, awarded the Adelbert-von- Emma Braslavsky takes a look into the vom Himmel über dem Atlantik, Chamisso-Prize; in 2015, she cosmic radiation or humanitarian instant night life of a city and takes us on the was published in 2008. Emma was the first recipient of the noodles combined. However, an Antigone- dark side of an energetic metropolis. Her Braslavsky lives in Berlin. newly founded Klopstock-Prize like mission saves the heroes from going to for Contemporary Literature. novel is an urban fairy tale and crime Selected Backlist: ground in their own survival. In 2017, she was awarded the story in one and talks about the radicali- Hugo-Ball-Prize for her œuvre. zation of the individual, about the fine Leben ist keine Art mit A collection of stories like a shot in the einem Tier umzugehen line between natural and artificial life knee. What Ann Cotten has somewhat Selected Backlist: (2016) and about the omnipotence of algorithms cheekily referred to as »science fiction Verbannt (2016) in a witty and fast-paced manner. on a Hegelian basis« over the last few Der schaudernde Fächer years has finally arrived.Lyophilia is like rmann (2013) International Sales: the special effects in a Tarkovsky film: a Netherlands (Leesmagazijn)