The following books were chosen by an expert jury as suitable for translation into English, all back by a translation funding guarantee if an English-language publisher buys the rights.

For funding information please see further information here.

For an overview of the Residenz publishing house in English, please see here.

Jury recommendations: autumn 2024

September 6, 2024

We are very pleased to share our autumn 2024 selection with you. Our expert jury handpicked these fiction and nonfiction titles from a pool of around a hundred submissions submitted to us by their publishers.

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Interview with Katharina Picandet, Edition Nautilus

January 17, 2025

Sheridan Marshall interviews Katharina Picandet, Rights Manager at Edition Nautilus, discussing the publishing house’s unique history and ethos, the challenges for contemporary publishing, and the stand-out titles on Nautilus’s list.

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Connection, culture and crime – a conversation with Joachim B. Schmidt

January 17, 2025

New Books in German talks with bestselling and award-winning author Joachim B. Schmidt about his writing career, the role of writing in integrating into a new society, and how crime fiction can be used for social critique.

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Intern interview: Tayiba Sulaiman

November 11, 2024

Recent intern Tayiba reflects on her time with New Books in German

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Novellas and Short Stories

October 25, 2024

An overview of the short story collections and novellas which have recently made the NBG recommendation list.

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‘One of the most exciting emerging voices in the German-language literary scene’ Jon Cho-Polizzi interviews Lin Hierse

October 13, 2024

Journalist, novelist, and poet, Lin Hierse is one of the most exciting emerging voices in the German-language literary scene. Jon Cho-Polizzi interviews her for New Books in German.

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DE → EN – Enjoy in English

October 7, 2024

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