Uwe Tellkamp
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Uwe Tellkamp
Uwe Tellkamp was born in Dresden in 1968. He studied medicine in Leipzig, New York and Dresden. He then worked as a doctor. Now living as a writer in Dresden, his novel Der Turm, published in 2008, won that year’s German Book Prize. Der Turm has been translated into 15 languages.
Uwe Tellkamp was born in Dresden in 1968. He studied medicine in Leipzig, New York and Dresden. He then worked as a doctor. Now living as a writer in Dresden, his novel Der Turm, published in 2008, won that year’s German Book Prize. Der Turm has been translated into 15 languages.
Awards (selection)
Deutscher Nationalpreis 2009
Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2009
Deutscher Buchpreis 2008
Uwe-Johnson-Preis 2008
Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2004
Dresdner Lyrikpreis 2004
Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2009
Deutscher Buchpreis 2008
Uwe-Johnson-Preis 2008
Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2004
Dresdner Lyrikpreis 2004
Deutscher Nationalpreis 2009
Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2009
Deutscher Buchpreis 2008
Uwe-Johnson-Preis 2008
Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2004
Dresdner Lyrikpreis 2004
Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2009
Deutscher Buchpreis 2008
Uwe-Johnson-Preis 2008
Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2004
Dresdner Lyrikpreis 2004
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2022
Uwe TellkampYear of Publication: 2022
The Slumber in the Clocks
August 2015: Fabian Hoffmann, the former dissident, is a chronicler employed by the »One Thousand and One Nights Department« at Treva. Here, in the labyrinths of an underground world, the...
Rights sold to:
Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Hungary (MCC Press)
Year of Publication: 2018
Uwe TellkampYear of Publication: 2018
The Carus Affairs
»Going to Carus«: that is how the gynaecologist said goodbye to his two children when he set off for the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy each day. The man who gave his name to the institution...
Rights sold to:
Italy (La Nave di Teseo)
Year of Publication: 2010
Uwe TellkampYear of Publication: 2010
Suspension Railway
After the enormous worldwide success of his best selling novel Der Turm (German Book Prize 2008, translated into over 15 languages) Uwe Tellkamp again takes us on a journey through his...
Rights sold to:
International sales: France (Grasset), Italy (La Nave di Teseo)
Domestic sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)
Year of Publication: 2008
Uwe TellkampYear of Publication: 2008
The Tower
House music, books, intellectual exchange. A residential quarter in Dresden, its dilapidated villas turning grey under »real-existing Socialism«, continues to keep the outside world at bay. With...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Penguin Press), Spanish world rights (Anagrama), Catalan rights (Anagrama-Empuries), Arabic world rights (Aseer Al-Kotob), France (Grasset; French book club sublicense: Grand Livre du Mois; French paperback sublicense: J'ai lu), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Press), Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Romania (Curtea Veche), Serbia (Zlatni Zmaj), Greece (Kastaniotis)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag), German Book Club (Der Club Bertelsmann), German Book Club Paperback (Weltbild), German Book Club Special Edition (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
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