Archives par étiquette : Jenny Erpenbeck

Le New York Times dévoile les meilleurs 100 titres de l’année

Plusieurs titres parmi nos représentations ont été sélectionnés par le New York Times :

ASYMMETRY de Lisa Halliday (droits acquis par Gallimard)

ETERNAL LIFE de Dara Horn (droits disponibles)

FRIDAY BLACK de Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (droits acquis par Albin Michel/ Terres d’Amérique)

GEHEN GING GEGANGEN de Jenny Erpenbeck (droits disponibles)

IMPROVEMENT de Joan Silber (droits disponibles)

A PRINCESS IN THEORY de Alyssa Cole (droits disponibles)

ALI: A LIFE de Jonathan Eig (droits acquis par Marabout)

DEAD GIRLS d’Alice Bolin (droits disponibles)

IN PIECES de Sally Field (droits disponibles)

THE FIFTH RISK de Michael Lewis (droits disponibles)

INTO THE RAGING SEA de Rachel Slade (droits disponibles)

WHY COMICS? de Hillary Chute (droits acquis par Urban Comics)

GEHEN, GING, GEGANGEN sélectionné pour le Man Booker International Prize

Le roman de Jenny Erpenbeck, qui avait déjà été sélectionné pour le Deutscher Buchpreis en 2015, est en lice pour le Man Booker Prize dans la catégorie dédiée aux auteurs nés en dehors du Commonwealth.

Au Royaume-Uni, le livre a été publié par Portobello Books sous le titre « Go, Went, Gone ».

“A deeply humane novel, coming exactly at the right time” DeutschlandRadio Kultur

GEHEN, GING, GEGANGEN
by Jenny Erpenbeck
Knaus, August 2015

How can you bear the passing of time when you are forced to do nothing? How can you cope with losing loved ones? Who passes on your legacy? Richard, a retired professor, has a chance encounter with asylum seekers in the middle of Berlin, and this gives him the idea of searching for answers to his questions where no one else would look: among those young refugees from Africa who have been stranded in Berlin and condemned to wait for years. And suddenly this world looks at him, the man living in Old Europe, and might well know better than he himself who he really is.
In her inimitable way, Jenny Erpenbeck has told a story of looking the other way and taking a look, of death and war, of perpetual waiting and of everything that is lying hidden beneath the surface.

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in 1967. After graduating from high school she first trained as a bookbinder before going on to study theatre science and music stage direction. While working as an opera director she debuted with her short novel Story of the Old Child, which was followed by other literary publications, including novels, short stories and stage plays. Her novel The End of Days was enthusiastically received by both the public and press alike and has been awarded several prizes, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2015.

Le nouveau roman de Jenny Erpenbeck dans la dernière sélection du Deutscher Buchpreis

GEHEN, GING, GEGANGEN figure parmi les six titres de la shortlist du Deutscher Buchpreis, qui sera décerné le 12 octobre prochain.

Son précédent roman, ALLER TAGE ABEND, avait remporté le dernier Indipendent Foreign Fiction Prize.

“A deeply humane novel, coming exactly at the right time” DeutschlandRadio Kultur

GEHEN, GING, GEGANGEN
(Go, Went, Gone)
by Jenny Erpenbeck
Knaus, August 2015

How can you bear the passing of time when you are forced to do nothing? How can you cope with losing loved ones? Who passes on your legacy? Richard, a retired professor, has a chance encounter with asylum seekers in the middle of Berlin, and this gives him the idea of searching for answers to his questions where no one else would look: among those young refugees from Africa who have been stranded in Berlin and condemned to wait for years. And suddenly this world looks at him, the man living in Old Europe, and might well know better than he himself who he really is.
In her inimitable way, Jenny Erpenbeck has told a story of looking the other way and taking a look, of death and war, of perpetual waiting and of everything that is lying hidden beneath the surface.

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in 1967. After graduating from high school she first trained as a bookbinder before going on to study theatre science and music stage direction. While working as an opera director she debuted with her short novel Story of the Old Child, which was followed by other literary publications, including novels, short stories and stage plays. Her novel The End of Days was enthusiastically received by both the public and press alike and has been awarded several prizes, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2015.

L’Independent Foreign Fiction Prize décerné à ALLER TAGE ABEND de Jenny Erpenbeck

ALLER TAGE ABEND, publié au Royaume-Uni en novembre 2014 par New Directions sous le titre « The End Of Days », a donc remporté ce prix qui met à l’honneur le meilleur ouvrage de fiction traduit en langue anglaise (UK). Le roman de Jenny Erpenbeck a été choisi dans une short list d’exception, dans laquelle figuraient des auteurs tels que Erwin Mortier et Haruki Murakami !

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Boyd Tonkin, journaliste de The Independent et juré du prix, a déclaré :

“This is a novel to enjoy, to cherish, and to revisit many times. Into its brief span Jenny Erpenbeck packs a century of upheaval, always rooted in the chances and choices of one woman’s life. It is both written and translated with an almost uncanny beauty, which grows not out of historical abstractions but from the shocks and hopes of everyday life, and from our common quest for peace, home and love. Re-reading this jewel of a book, I came to feel as if both W. G. Sebald and Virginia Woolf would recognise a kindred spirit here.”