Larissa Boehning was born in 1971 in Wiesbaden, Germany, and grew up in a suburb of Hamburg. She studied cultural science, philosophy and history of art in Hamburg and Berlin. She was awarded the Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize (2002) for one of the stories taken from this, her first, collection. Translation rights available from Eichborn AG Kaiserstraße 66 60329 Frankfurt am Main Germany Tel: +49 69 25 60 03 20 Email:rights@eichborn.de Contact: Jutta Willand Applications for assistance with translation costs - Germany Eichborn AG was founded in 1980, and is one of the few independent general publishers operating in Germany. Its strong and diversified list includes fiction and non-fiction; humour and reference books; THE OTHER LIBRARY series, edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; and Eichborn Berlin, which focuses on literary debuts in German. Many titles originally published by Eichborn have been translated into English, including W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn; Anita Albus's The Art of Arts; Karen Duve's Rain; and Berlin Blues by Sven Regener.