{"id":254526,"date":"2007-08-16T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/16\/german-book-prize\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:49","slug":"german-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/16\/german-book-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"German Book Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

The longlist for the 2007 German Book Prize was announced<\/a> yesterday. (See the full list after the jump.) <\/p>\n

Here’s what spokesperson for the judges, Felicitas von Lovenberg had to say about the selection of these 20 books from the 117 submitted titles:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cWithout allowing ourselves to be seduced by celebrity or distracted by the pressure of originality, we have chosen twenty titles that reflect the unusual diversity and vitality in German-language literature as it presents itself this autumn in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Good to know that they stood up to the pressure of originality. It’s always a bad sign with originality counts for something.<\/p>\n

But seriously, although I’m not familiar with any of the specific titles on this list, a number of the authors were recommended to me at one time or another by the wonderful people at the German Book Office,<\/a> including Julia Franck, Thomas Glavinic, Michael Lentz, and Robert Menasse. <\/p>\n

According to the official site, Signandsight.com<\/a> has info and sample translations for the “shortlisted authors.” I couldn’t find this online, but hopefully it’s on its way. <\/p>\n

German Book Prize Longlist<\/p>\n

Thommie Bayer: Eine kurze Geschichte vom Gl\u00fcck<\/i> (Piper, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Larissa Boehning: Lichte Stoffe<\/i> (Eichborn Berlin, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Julia Franck: Die Mittagsfrau<\/i> (S. Fischer, September 2007)<\/p>\n

Thomas Glavinic: Das bin doch ich<\/i> (Hanser, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Lena Gorelik: Hochzeit in Jerusalem<\/i> (SchirmerGraf, March 2007)<\/p>\n

Sabine Gruber: \u00dcber Nacht<\/i> (C.H. Beck, January 2007)<\/p>\n

Peter Henisch: Eine sehr kleine Frau<\/i> (Deuticke, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Michael K\u00f6hlmeier: Abendland<\/i> (Hanser, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Katja Lange-M\u00fcller: B\u00f6se Schafe<\/i> (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Michael Lentz: Pazifik Exil<\/i> (S. Fischer, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Harald Martenstein: Heimweg<\/i> (C. Bertelsmann, February 2007)<\/p>\n

Pierangelo Maset: Laura oder die T\u00fccken der Kunst<\/i>(kookbooks, September 2007)<\/p>\n

Robert Menasse: Don Juan de la Mancha<\/i> (Suhrkamp, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Martin Mosebach: Der Mond und das M\u00e4dchen<\/i> (Hanser, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Mathias Nolte: Roula Rouge<\/i> (Deuticke, March 2007)<\/p>\n

Gregor Sander: abwesend<\/i> (Wallstein, March 2007)<\/p>\n

Arnold Stadler: Komm, gehen wir<\/i> (S. Fischer, May2007)<\/p>\n

Peter Truschner: Die Tr\u00e4umer<\/i> (Zsolnay, March 2007)<\/p>\n

John von D\u00fcffel: Beste Jahre<\/i> (DuMont, August 2007)<\/p>\n

Thomas von Steinaecker: Wallner beginnt zu fliegen<\/i> (FVA<\/span>, February 2007) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The longlist for the 2007 German Book Prize was announced<\/a> yesterday. (See the full list after the jump.) <\/p>\n

Here’s what spokesperson for the judges, Felicitas von Lovenberg had to say about the selection of these 20 books from the 117 submitted titles:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cWithout allowing ourselves to be seduced by celebrity or distracted by the pressure of originality, we have chosen twenty titles that reflect the unusual diversity and vitality in German-language literature as it presents itself this autumn in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Good to know that they stood up to the pressure of originality. It’s always a bad sign with originality counts for something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,4336,4326,2436],"class_list":["post-254526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-german-book-office","tag-german-book-prize","tag-signandsight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363306,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254526\/revisions\/363306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}