Scribe acquires Germany’s ‘Booker’ winner

We have acquired World English rights in Kruso, by Lutz Seiler, which was awarded the recently announced 2014 German Book Prize -- that country's equivalent to the Man Booker Prize. Seiler is a multi-award-winning poet and short-story writer. Kruso, his first novel, has sold over 120,000 copies in Germany since its publication in September. We acquired the rights at auction from Nora Mercurio at Suhrkamp Verlag.

Kruso is set on a legendary island off the north coast of Germany at the very end of the division of Germany into East and West in 1989. Scribe publisher, Henry Rosenbloom, described it as 'a beautiful, poetic, multi-layered novel about friendship, freedom, and adventure, with echoes of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. We are thrilled to have been granted the right to bring this outstanding book to an international English readership.'

We will publish Kruso in 2016.

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Scribe acquires Germany’s ‘Booker’ winner

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