Raving international press for Patricia Highsmith's Her Diaries and Notebooks

»Yet despite the extremes of mood and tone, this volcano of a book, winnowed from more than 8'000 pages of notebooks and diaries left behind when Highsmith died in 1995, is in fact a model of compression.«
M.G. Lord / Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles

»Furthermore, the magnificent result is, indeed, unpredictable. It’s impossible to guess what Highsmith will come out with next. There is a startling phrase on every page.«
Mark Sanderson / The Times, London

»A new book, Patricia Highsmith: Diaries and Notebooks, opens a window onto this extraordinary writer’s inner life and working methods.«
Ian Thomson / Evening Standard, London

One of the delights of the early diary entries is the unlikely spectacle of Highsmith as steward of a lot of glancing – Bridget Jones-type material (8 November 1943: ›Nice day. Wore moccasins to work with great success.‹)«
Emma Brockes / The Guardian, London

»As the Diaries and Notebooks reveal, Pat was also unpredictable, which makes you want to dive right back into her oeuvre again.«
Marianne Payot / L'Express, Paris

»Anybody who isn’t a fan yet should read one of the mentioned novels or The Cry of the Owl or This Sweet Sickness. But beware: This stuff is addictive.«
Thomas Bodmer / Die Weltwoche, Zürich

»A war chest beneath duvet covers.«
Didier Jacob / L'OBS, Paris

»A spellbinding read.« 
Knut Cordsen / BR24, München

»A woman making her way through a male century.«
Joachim Leitner / Tiroler Tageszeitung, Innsbruck
 

Louise Brown's What Remains When We Die reviewed and presented by the author

»Brown dispenses with guidebook-like elements. She shows ways of coping with grief that should offer comfort to those struggling.«
Nathalie Zeindler / Weltwoche, Zurich

If you would like to get a personal impression of the author, have a look at this video with her (in German).

Tomi Ungerer would have turned 90 on 28 November

Tomi Ungerer was born on 28 November 1931 – and his 90th anniversary is duly celebrated: The Hamburg-based Deichtorhallen have opened an exhibition with selected works under the title It's all about Freedom. Forum Würth Arlesheim also makes a special exhibition with his works. Arlesheim is located in Switzerland, but very close to the French and German border, a fitting place for this true European.

At Diogenes, we are publishing a special edition of the Book of Christmas Carols and The Underground Sketchbook this month to celebrate.

Happy birthday, Françoise Gilot!

Rebel, muse and painter Françoise Gilot turned 100 this 26th of November – happy birthday! We are celebrating her with the new release of this highly praised literary portrait of her by Malte Herwig, a Spiegel bestseller in its hardcover edition of 2015: The Woman Who Says No.

Françoise Gilot was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1921 and lives and works in New York and Paris. Her pictures have been exhibited in museums all over the world (Museum of Modern Art, Musée Picasso in Antibes, Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, etc.). Her first book Life with Picasso, available as a Diogenes paperback, became an international bestseller. Recently, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and other auction houses have been holding auctions for her pictures. This May 2021, The New York Times featured Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso alongside other famous artist couples, such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera or Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 2019, both The New York Times and The New Yorker portrayed and interviewed Françoise Gilot.
 

Now published in translation: Dürrenmatt stories omnibus in Chinese

Chinese (simplified characters) edition by People's Literature (人民文学出版社) in Beijing.

French rights of Stefanie vor Schulte's Boy with a Black Rooster sold

We've sold French rights to Héloïse d'Ormesson. Italian rights are with Mondadori. The press is raving:

»An inspired debut from Stefanie vor Schulte!«    
Jana Felgenhauer / Barbara, Hamburg

»This enigmatic plot, studded with symbols, and vor Schulte’s concise, distinctive narrative style will be remembered for a long time.«
Ulrike Frenkel / Münchner Merkur, Munich

Bernhard Schlink's The Granddaughter in the top ten of the Spiegel bestseller list for five weeks, enthusiastic press

The Granddaughter, Bernhard Schlink's latest novel, has stayed in the top ten of the Spiegel bestseller list for five weeks. We have just sold Italian rights to Neri Pozza in a two-book deal, together with Self's Justice. Czech rights are sold to Euromedia; further eight foreign rights deals are being negotiated.

Enthusiastic reviews keep pouring in:

»Because one can relate to this immediacy of personal experience, the novel is very gripping.«
Christian Mayer / Süddeutsche Zeitung, München

»A great book with a brilliant ending.«
Helmut Atteneder / Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, Linz

Schlink packs a great deal into this novel. The soft tones are convincing, as is grief as an impetus to search for the lost daughter; and especially the initial, sensitively narrated section.« 
Dorothea Westphal / Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Cologne

»Bernhard Schlink has once again woven his new novel around an exciting plot, within which the existential topics intensify further still.«
Bernadette Conrad / Weltwoche, Zurich

»He puts a big sign of hope at the end.«
Karin Grossmann / Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden

»Bernhard Schlink's new novel is, in its own way, brave too. 
Thomas Andre / Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg

»Solving major conflicts like those in The Granddaughter requires not only understanding and knowledge, but also patience, empathy, listening, music and good reading material.«
Hedwig Kainberger / Salzburger Nachrichten, Salzburg

 

Praised by the press: Jörg Fauser's Kant

The latest instalment of our beloved re-edition of Jörg Fauser’s work won the acclaim of the press. In Kant, the author tasks his private detective and suave anti-hero Hezekiel Kant with keeping a close eye on the wholesale chain SPUMEX. Since he gambled away his advance payment before even agreeing to the job, and the client’s daughter has apparently been kidnapped, he allows himself to be drawn into the dangerous game. 

»Once again, Fauser pulls out all the stops with his fast-paced, Hammett-schooled craft, already pointing towards Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.«
Manfred Papst / NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich

»Amongst it all, he reveals his precise, laconic humour, and discovers images of tragicomic poetry.«
Münchner Merkur, Munich

Now published in translation: Her Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith in French

French edition by Calmann-Lévy (Paris)

Now published: Patricia Highsmith's Her Diaries and Notebooks

UK edition by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London)