Bernd Cailloux
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Bernd Cailloux

Bernd Cailloux, born in 1945, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, and radio plays. His novel Das Geschäftsjahr 1968/69, in many ways a precursor to Gutgeschriebene Verluste, received outstanding reviews in the media. The author lives in Berlin.

Bernd Cailloux, born in 1945, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, and radio plays. His novel Das Geschäftsjahr 1968/69, in many ways a precursor to Gutgeschriebene Verluste, received outstanding reviews in the media. The author lives in Berlin.


PUBLICATIONS

The American Son
Year of Publication: 2020
Bernd CaillouxYear of Publication: 2020

How about you? Do you have children? – Yes, a son, in America. Silence ensues. The question, innocently asked on the periphery of a panel discussion, touches upon a trauma. The protagonist learned of his fatherhood thirty years ago, coincidentally, on a dancefloor.


The boy named Eno grew up in Jamaica and later in the USA. There was no contact. The mother, originally from Hamburg,...

Surabaya Gold
Year of Publication: 2016
Bernd CaillouxYear of Publication: 2016

An officer of the mercantile marine becomes a drug mule out of marital affection, a businesswoman from Hamburg buys an airport and discovers her »hashgreen« thumb, an up and coming small scale dealer gets mixed up with the wrong people during a big coup with the wrong product, and two pensioners with very different backgrounds get together in a rehabilitation facility to watch the...

Allowed Losses
Year of Publication: 2012
Bernd CaillouxYear of Publication: 2012
Bernd Cailloux looks back from the year 2005 to the 70s and 80s in West Berlin, when this part of the city was still leading an insular life and became a Mecca for nonconformists, conscientious objectors, revolutionaries, and bohemians.


He describes the hedonistic life of a colourful hippie community where buying a house, starting a family or saving up for retirement is out and...
The Business Year of 1968/69
Year of Publication: 2005
Bernd CaillouxYear of Publication: 2005
West Germany, 1965. Two young men meet at a training course for journalists, and right away they sense that there are big things in store for them. But for now, the dreariness of the times is still holding them back: first, they must crawl through the sludge of compulsory military service and then through the quagmire of bourgeois romantic relationships and the life of backwood reporters after...

DISCOVER

News
15.08.2012
Out of 20 nominated novels, five are published and represented by Suhrkamp.
News
10.08.2012
The longlist for the Wilhelm Raabe Literary Award has been announced.