They've announced that Six novels chosen as finalists for the German Book Prize.
I haven't read any of these, but Clemens Meyer's Im Stein arrived, well-timed, in the mail two days ago and I'm looking forward to getting to that before the 7 October announcement of the winner.
(Another pretty 'big' novel, by the way -- 558 pages; see the S.Fischer publicity page, or get your German copy from Amazon.de (where it's selling reasonably well, but faring quite poorly with the reader-reviews: seven so far, and an average of just 2.7 stars, out of 5).)
I like how the official press release also notes:
I like how the official press release also notes:
The radio stations Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur will broadcast the ceremony live as part of the "Dokumente und Debatten" programme on LW 153 and 177 kHz, on MW 990 kHz, as a live stream online at www.deutschlandradio.de and on digital satellite radio DAB+. The award ceremony will also be transmitted via live video stream at www.deutscher-buchpreis.de.I found those frequency-listings handy when I listened to foreign broadcasts on my shortwave radio -- but that was in the 1980s. Does anyone listen to this stuff on an actual radio any more, rather than just tuning in on the Internet ?