They've announced that Jury nominates 20 novels for longlist for the German Book Prize 2012.
They selected the twenty from 162 titles; disappointingly, they, like the Man Booker Prize, do not reveal what the 162 submitted and called-in titles were. (Note also that they managed to consider more than 10 per cent more titles than the Man Booker Prize judges did for their (admittedly longer) longlist.....)
There are quite a few familiar names here -- but the big story is undoubtably the stunning success of Suhrkamp: with five titles they make up a quarter of the longlist. (This, yet again, makes the case against publisher-submissions (and limited ones at that): just like with the Man Booker, publishers were limited to two submissions apiece for the German Book Prize -- meaning Suhrkamp had at least three called-in titles in the mix.)
And while Suhrkamp did exceptionally well, major literary publishers Rowohlt (one title) and S.Fischer (shut out) did shamefully poorly.
They selected the twenty from 162 titles; disappointingly, they, like the Man Booker Prize, do not reveal what the 162 submitted and called-in titles were. (Note also that they managed to consider more than 10 per cent more titles than the Man Booker Prize judges did for their (admittedly longer) longlist.....)
There are quite a few familiar names here -- but the big story is undoubtably the stunning success of Suhrkamp: with five titles they make up a quarter of the longlist. (This, yet again, makes the case against publisher-submissions (and limited ones at that): just like with the Man Booker, publishers were limited to two submissions apiece for the German Book Prize -- meaning Suhrkamp had at least three called-in titles in the mix.)
And while Suhrkamp did exceptionally well, major literary publishers Rowohlt (one title) and S.Fischer (shut out) did shamefully poorly.