Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Being invited to the ›Emmy Award‹ ceremony is an exceptional feat, and we are proud and happy that Diogenes publisher Philipp Keel spent last night there as Executive Producer of Ripley. The series received four ›Emmys‹, among them Steven Zaillian for Outstanding Directing.

Meanwhile on the German Spiegel bestseller list, we have two top-five best-selling books, namely Daniela Krien's My Third Life (fiction list) and Benedict Wells' The Stories Inside Us (non-fiction). Please also have a look at the rave reviews below for Stefanie vor Schulte's The Thin Horse, Anne Reinecke's Beyond the Walls, an Ocean, Micha Lewinsky's Flight or Fight and Sarah Pines' The Patriarch.

Best wishes,
Susanne, Suzanne, Andrej, Jana and Claudia

Diogenes Verlag AG Sprecherstrasse 8 8032 Zurich Switzerland
Tel +41 44 254 85 54 susanne.bauknecht@diogenes.ch www.diogenes.ch

Four ›Emmy Awards‹ for Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

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Last night in Los Angeles, the Netflix series Ripley was honoured with four ›Emmys‹. Diogenes publisher Philipp Keel accompanied the series with his subsidiary Diogenes Entertainment as Executive Producer.

»I am proud of our project Ripley, which I brought to life with my partners and was able to accompany as a producer – I congratulate Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Steven Zaillian and his entire crew, they have succeeded in creating an outstanding series.« Philipp Keel

At the ›Emmy Awards‹ ceremony, Ripley was honoured in the categories Outstanding Directing (Steven Zaillian), Cinematography and Sound Editing. Episode 3 also received an Emmy in the Special Visual Effects category.

The eight-part series Ripley premiered on Netflix in April 2024, and is based on the famous novel The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Daniela Krien, My Third Life on #3 of the Spiegel bestseller list

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Daniela Krien enters the Spiegel bestseller list at #3. The literary community ›Freunde der Zeit‹ chose the book in their top three out of the ›German Book Prize‹ nominees. And the past weeks have brought us another avalanche of enthusiastic reviews, here's a taste:

»She just writes in a way that draws you in from the very beginning.«
Elke Heidenreich / WDR 4, Cologne

»A stunning book.«
Barbara Beer / Kurier, Vienna

»This movingly wise novel remains open until the very end.«
Rainer Moritz / Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich

»Krien is an outstanding observer. She knows what makes people tick and what causes them, on occasion, to lose their temper.«
Franziska Wolffheim / Tagesspiegel, Berlin

Rights sold so far:
Catalan (Més Llibres)
Croatian (Fraktura)
English/UK (MacLehose)
Norwegian (Press)
Romanian (Humanitas)
Slovenian (Mladinska Knjiga)
Spanish/world (Vegueta)

Benedict Wells, Dutch rights sold of The Stories Inside Us

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The Stories Inside Us still ranks 2nd on the Spiegel bestseller list, for the 6th week now. Meulenhoff have just secured Dutch rights.

»This is a truly exceptional book: reading and writing won’t get closer to each other anywhere than here.«
Denis Scheck / ARD, Berlin

»This unearthing of one’s own story, eked out against qualm, gently feeling and still determined, is unparalleled.«
Hartmut Wilmes / Kölnische Rundschau, Cologne

Stefanie vor Schulte, The Thin Horse reviewed

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»It’s feminist, it’s powerful, and it’s certainly not for the faint of heart.«
Bianca Braunshofer / Puls 4, Vienna

»Stefanie vor Schulte takes us away to a magical world full of fairytale images and strong female characters.«
Berliner Morgenpost

»[. . .] a wickedly genius genre mix: a feminist doomsday western (fantastic high noon scene!) with a satirical wink. What a wild ride!«
Silvi Feist / Emotion, Hamburg

Anne Reinecke, Beyond the Walls, an Ocean reviewed

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»You read these 250 pages as if they were nothing.«
Joachim Scholl / Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Cologne

»The perfect book for when you’re thinking about escape.«

Lydia Herms / Deutschlandfunk Nova, Cologne

»Mythically poetic.«

Matthias Heine / Die Literarische Welt, Berlin

Micha Lewinsky, Flight or Fight reviewed

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»[...] a refined play on our anxieties about the future.«
Annemarie Stoltenberg / NDR Kultur, Hamburg

»Is Flight or Fight going to make it to the big screen? We may eagerly look forward to the journey of this audacious, smart novel.«
SRF, Zurich

»Highly comical, highly funny, but of course very tragic, too.«
Petra Hartlieb / ORF, Vienna

Sarah Pines, The Patriarch reviewed

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»A linguistic pleasure.«
Walter Bau / Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Essen

»Sarah Pines’ debut is an ode to and a requiem for the incomparable Roaring Twenties: tale-spinning, pleasurable, dark. A joyful read!«

Ruhr Nachrichten, Dortmund

Bernhard Schlink, The 20th of July on stage

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Hamburger Kammerspiele theatre starts this season with Bernhard Schlink's play The 20th of July. It is widely reviewed.

Film options: Paradise Garden and others

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We have sold the film options of Elena Fischer's Paradise Garden as well as Ingrid Noll's Tea Time and The Pharmacist.

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Now published in translation: So Shall You Reap by Donna Leon in Dutch

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Dutch edition by De Bezige Bij/Cargo, Amsterdam.