Nora Bossong
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Nora Bossong

Nora Bossong, born in Bremen in 1982, is the author of poetry, novels and essays and has been the recipient of several awards for her works, including the Peter Huchel Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis 2019 and the Joseph Breitbach Prize 2020. Schutzzone was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2019. Nora Bossong's works have been translated into various languages.

Nora Bossong, born in Bremen in 1982, is the author of poetry, novels and essays and has been the recipient of several awards for her works, including the Peter Huchel Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis 2019 and the Joseph Breitbach Prize 2020. Schutzzone was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2019. Nora Bossong's works have been translated into various languages.

Awards (selection)
Elisabeth-Langgässer-Literaturpreis 2024
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2020
Thomas Mann Prize 2020
Wilhelm-Lehmann-Preis 2020
German Book Prize 2019 (longlist)
Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis 2019
»Text & Sprache« 2019 (shortlist)
Elisabeth-Langgässer-Literaturpreis 2024
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2020
Thomas Mann Prize 2020
Wilhelm-Lehmann-Preis 2020
German Book Prize 2019 (longlist)
Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis 2019
»Text & Sprache« 2019 (shortlist)

PUBLICATIONS

Reichskanzlerplatz
Year of Publication: 2024
Nora BossongYear of Publication: 2024
In her new novel, Nora Bossong paints a double portrait of the woman who became Magda Goebbels, the »first lady« of Nazi Germany, and the young gay man who, for a brief moment, was her lover. Two...
Rights sold to:

France (Les Escales), Czech Republic (Argo), Hungary (Open Books), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German radio reading (HR/NDR), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)

Film rights optioned

Tomorrow Too
Year of Publication: 2021
Nora BossongYear of Publication: 2021

Be it in her award-winning novels, reportages or essays – Nora Bossong’s texts unfailingly take us straight into the painfully relevant problems areas of our time. Where others make snap judgements or withdraw into themselves, she looks closely, listens with compassion and asks questions: about colonial guilt and global justice, about the West’s claims to power and...

Rules of Engagement
Year of Publication: 2019
Nora BossongYear of Publication: 2019

2017: After postings with the UN in New York and Burundi, Mira is working for the United Nations Office at Geneva and mediates talks on the reunification of Cyprus. At a reception at the luxury...

Rights sold to:

Arabic world rights (Alfouad), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg), German Entire Radio Reading (HR)

Crusade with a Dog
Year of Publication: 2018
Nora BossongYear of Publication: 2018

In her new volume of poetry, Nora Bossong travels from small-town Germany to the Mediterranean and onwards into the Holy Land and beyond. Her natural manner of movement a shifting back and forth...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull)


DISCOVER

Optioned
With translation rights sold for multiple languages, Nora Bossong’s latest novel Reichskanzlerplatz is now to be adapted for the screen.
News
Nora Bossong spoke with Silke Hohmann about her life as a writer and her new novel Reichskanzlerplatz.
News
Historical information and background material on Nora Bossong's new novel.