Stephan Thome
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Stephan Thome
Stephan Thome, born in Biedenkopf in 1972, studied philosophy and sinology at the Free University of Berlin and at other universities in China, Taiwan and Japan. He worked in East Asia for ten years and has also lived in Lisbon. His novels Grenzgang (2009) and Fliehkräfte (2012) were both shortlisted for the German Book Prize. His work has won several prizes. Stephan Thome lives in Taipei.
Stephan Thome, born in Biedenkopf in 1972, studied philosophy and sinology at the Free University of Berlin and at other universities in China, Taiwan and Japan. He worked in East Asia for ten years and has also lived in Lisbon. His novels Grenzgang (2009) and Fliehkräfte (2012) were both shortlisted for the German Book Prize. His work has won several prizes. Stephan Thome lives in Taipei.
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2024
Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2024
Narrow Waters, Dangerous Currents
In recent years, tensions between Taiwan and China have heightened. A visit to the island by then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in August 2022 was condemned by Beijing as »extremely dangerous«....
Rights sold to:
Chinese complex rights (Taiwan Interminds)
Year of Publication: 2021
Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2021
Plum Rain
Taiwan in the 1940s, at the end of the Japanese colonial era. As the Pacific War inexorably approaches, eight-year-old Umeko grows up sheltered in a small town in the north of the island. She is...
Rights sold to:
Chinese complex rights (Linking), Finland (Lurra)
Year of Publication: 2018
Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2018
God of the Barbarians
China, mid-nineteenth-century. A Christian revolutionary movement swamps the Empire with terror and destruction. A young German missionary, who wants to help with the modernising...
Rights sold to:
Chinese simplex rights (Social Sciences Academic Press), Chinese complex rights (Linking)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Griot)
Year of Publication: 2015
Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2015
Counterplay
Counterplay revolves around Maria-Antonia Pereira, a young Portuguese woman: Maria is in her early twenties, finished school in Lisbon and wants to leave a Portugal that seems, at...
Rights sold to:
Chinese complex rights (Linking)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Entire Radio Readings (SWR and NDR), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2012
Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2012
Centrifugal Forces
Hartmut Hainbach is in his late fifties and has achieved everything he ever wished for: he is professor of philosophy and married to his dream woman, whom he still loves after twenty years of...
Rights sold to:
Chinese simplex rights (People's Literature Publishing House), Chinese complex rights (Linking)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Book Club Rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2009
Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2009
Borderwalk
Every seven years the small town Bergenstadt celebrates Grenzgang – a three-day folk-festival, during which the people not only walk on the borders of their hometown. It is about testing the limits...
Rights sold to:
Chinese simplex rights (Jiangsu People's Publishing House), Chinese complex rights (Linking), Netherlands (Cossée)
Domestic Rights Sales: Film rights (WDR), German Audiobook (Griot), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
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Stephan Thome on the Shortlist for German Book Prize 2018
We are excited to announce that Stephan Thome has been shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2018.News