NEWS

Iris Wolff’s new novel Clearings was shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2024. Germany’s most prestigious book prize.

Clearings rose to number two on the best seller list in Germany within days of publication in January 2024. In February and April it reached the no.1 and no.2 spot on the SWR best and SRF Culture best lists. Described by leading German newspaper Die Zeit as 'highly original', ‘a wonderful novel to remember, dream about and ponder', Clearings was also chosen as Die Zeit’s Book of the Month.

Moth Books will be publishing this compelling novel in 2026.

Iris Wolff has been awarded the Spycher Prize for Clearings. The prize gives the winner accommodation and writing time in Leuk in Switzerland over a period of five years.

Iris Wolff has won the Uwe-Johnson-Preis worth 20,000 Euros for her novel Clearings, one of 90 works submitted. The prize, now in its 30th year, marks 90 years since Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) was born. It is awarded for outstanding literary works which connect both to Johnson’s poetics and to his ‘simple truths’ about German history, its past and future. It was last awarded to Jenny Erpenbeck in 2022 for her novel Kairos.

Monique Charlesworth’s Mother Country was one of three memoirs shortlisted for the TLS Ackerley Prize 2024 for memoir and autobiography.

Julia Franck has recently spent a term in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles as resident fellow in the Thomas Mann House; she is working on a new book.

Imogen Taylor has won the Austrian Cultural Forum 2024 Translation Prize for her translation of a passage from Vladimir Vertlib’s Die Heimreise. The prize giving ceremony will be at 7pm on November 14, 2024, at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.