Robert Menasse

Robert Menasse was born in Vienna in 1954. He studied German philology, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina and received his PhD in 1980 with a thesis on the character of the outsider in literature. Menasse then spent six years at the University of São Paulo, first as a lecturer for Austrian literature, then as a guest lecturer at the Institute for Literary Theory, where he gave lectures on philosophical and aesthetic theories, including on Hegel, Lukács, Benjamin and Adorno. Since his return from Brazil in 1988, Robert Menasse has been a writer and essayist based mainly in Vienna.

Awards (selection)

Prix du Livre européen for Die Erweiterung
Bruno-Kreisky-Preis for Political Writing 2022 for Die Erweiterung (Austria)
Shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2022 for Die Erweiterung
21st Century Best Foreign Novel of the Year award 2020 (China)
Prix littéraire des lycées français d’Europe 2019 (France)
Nominated for the Prix du livre européen 2019 (France)
Nominated for the Premio Strega Europeo 2019 (Italy)
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PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2024

Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2024

The World of Tomorrow

In The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig depicted the cosmopolitan Europe he had lived in prior to 1914. By the time he put his memories on paper, though, this world no longer existed, having been...

Rights sold to:

Portuguese rights (Gradiva), France (Verdier)

Year of Publication: 2022

Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2022

Enlargement

2019 – membership negotiations between the European Union and the Western Balkan countries have come to a standstill; France and the Netherlands have put in a veto. This has toppled many a...

Rights sold to:

France (Verdier), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Hungary (Geopen), Slovenia (Mladinska Knjiga), Albania (Dudaj)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörverlag)

Year of Publication: 2017

Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2017

The Capital

Brussels. A panorama of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. In his new novel, Robert Menasse spans a narrative arc between the times, the nations, the inevitable...

Rights sold to:

UK & Commonwealth (MacLehose Press), USA & Canada (W.W.Norton/Liveright), Spanish world rights (Seix Barral), Chinese simplex rights (People's Literature Publishing House), Chinese complex rights (Linking), Russia (Text), Portuguese rights (Dom Quixote), Arabic world rights (AFAQ), France (Verdier), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Denmark (Vandkunsten) Sweden (Weyler), Japan (Hosei UP), Poland (Noir sur Blanc), Czech Republic (Plus), Hungary (Geopen), Bulgaria (Lege Artis), Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Arhipelag), Slovenia (Cankarjeva založba), Turkey (Everest), Greece (Patakis), Albania (Dudaj), Georgia (Intelekti), Armenia (Antares), India/Hindi (Saar Sansaar)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)

Year of Publication: 2009

Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2009

Anyone Can Say »I«

History repeats itself. Memories as well. When did the post-war order come to an end? When did the wall fell? A young pair who spent their wedding night watching TV will remember November 9, 1989...

Rights sold to:

Netherlands (de Arbeiderspers), Hindi (Aryan)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Ariadne), France (Jacqueline Chambon), Bulgaria (Lege Artis)

Don Juan de La Mancha or the Education of Lust

Year of Publication: 2007

Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2007

Don Juan de La Mancha or the Education of Lust

»You can only be happy with your first woman or with your last« announces Nathan's father, thus summarizing the seducer's dilemma.

Nathan too is a seducer, albeit...

Rights sold to:

France (Verdier), Latvia (Jumava), Serbia (Karpos), Hindi (Vani)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Alma Books/Calder Publications), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Italy (Scritturapura), Netherlands (de Arbeiderspers), Slovakia (Kalligram), Hungary (Kalligram), Bulgaria (Lege Artis), Lithuania (Pasvires Pasaulis)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont)

Year of Publication: 2001

Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2001

Expulsion from Hell

During a school reunion, 25 years after graduating from highschool, Viktor confronts his former fellow pupils with their teachers’ Nazi past. The result is real row, and the reunion evening...

Rights sold to:

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Alianza), Russia (Text), France (Verdier), Portugal (Ulisseia), France (Verdier), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Norway (Aschehoug), Czech Republic (Academia), Hungary (Ulpius Ház), Bulgaria (Lege Artis), Slovenia (Cankarjeva založba), Greece (Polis)

Year of Publication: 1967

Gerhard FritschYear of Publication: 1967

Carnival

»Carnival is the story of Felix Golub, who deserts from the German Wehrmacht and survives the time until liberation in a small Austrian town disguised as a maid. At the end of the war,...

Rights sold to:

Serbia (Futura)

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News

Robert Menasse Turns 70 on 21 June 2024

Suhrkamp congratulates author Robert Menasse on his 70th birthday.

News

06.10.2023

Robert Menasse a Finalist for the Prix du Livre Européen 2023

Robert Menasse's novel Enlargement has made it to the final three titles in the running for the Prix du Livre Européen 2023

News

Bruno-Kreisky-Preis 2022 for Robert Menasse

The author has been awarded the prize for his book Enlargement.