German Book Prize 2015 Longlist

Twenty novels have been longlisted for the German Book Prize, for titles published between October 2014 and September 2015. The shortlist will be announced on September 16. The prize will then be awarded in October, at the outset of the Frankfurt Book Fair. 

 

The nominated novels are:

• Alina Bronsky: Baba Dunjas letzte Liebe (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, August 2015)
• Ralph Dutli: Die Liebenden von Mantua (Wallstein, August 2015)
• Jenny Erpenbeck: Gehen, ging, gegangen (Knaus, August 2015)
• Valerie Fritsch: Winters Garten (Suhrkamp, March 2015)
• Heinz Helle: Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen (Suhrkamp, September 2015)
• Gertraud Klemm: Aberland (Droschl, February 2015)
• Steffen Kopetzky: Risiko (Klett-Cotta, February 2015)
• Rolf Lappert: Über den Winter (Carl Hanser, August 2015)
• Inger-Maria Mahlke: Wie Ihr wollt (Berlin Verlag, March 2015)
• Ulrich Peltzer: Das bessere Leben (S. Fischer, July 2015)
• Peter Richter: 89/90 (Luchterhand, March 2015)
• Monique Schwitter: Eins im Andern (Droschl, August 2015)
• Clemens J. Setz: Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre (Suhrkamp, September 2015)
• Anke Stelling: Bodentiefe Fenster (Verbrecher Verlag, March 2015)
• Ilija Trojanow: Macht und Widerstand (S. Fischer, August 2015)
• Vladimir Vertlib: Lucia Binar und die russische Seele (Paul Zsolnay, February 2015)
• Kai Weyand: Applaus für Bronikowski (Wallstein, March 2015)
• Frank Witzel: Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969 (Matthes & Seitz, February 2015)
• Christine Wunnicke: Der Fuchs und Dr. Shimamura (Berenberg, March 2015)
• Feridun Zaimoglu: Siebentürmeviertel (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, August 2015)

 

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