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Stadtbibliothek Bremen

Germany

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The International collection of Public Library Bremen presents media in 21 languages. The collection includes original language novels, audiobooks, films and TV series in the major world languages as well as many smaller languages. With its international collection, the Public Library Bremen is among the public libraries in Germany with the greatest variety of languages in fictional literature.

PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

2026

David Safier

Murder at the Castle: A Miss Merkel Mystery

2025

Lutz Seiler

Star 111

2024

Olivia Wenzel

1000 coils of fear

2023

Saša Stanišić

Where You Come From

2021

Daniel Kehlmann

Tyll

2020

Benedict Wells

The End of Loneliness

2020

Rafik Schami

Sophia, or The Beginning of all Tales

2019

Lutz Seiler

Kruso

2018

Christopher Kloeble

Almost Everything Very Fast

2018

Judith Hermann

Where Love Begins

2017

Monika Held

This Place Holds No Fear

2016

Juli Zeh

Decompression

2016

Olga Grjasnowa

All Russians Love Birch Trees

2015

Julia Franck

Back to Back

2015

Sabine Gruber

Roman Elegy

2014

Juli Zeh

The Method

2014

Alissa Walser

Mesmerized

2014

Benjamin Stein

The Canvas

2013

Thomas Pletzinger

Funeral for a Dog

2013

Julya Rabinowich

Splithead

2012

Daniel Kehlmann

Fame

2012

Jenny Erpenbeck

Visitation

2012

Yishai Sarid

Limassol

2011

Julia Franck

The Blind Side of the Heart

2011

Yiyun Li

The Vagrants

2010

Philip Roth

Indignation

2010

Ingo Schulze

New Lives: The Youth of Enrico Turmer in letters and prose

2010

Stewart O’Nan

Songs for the Missing

2009

Michael Ondaatje

Divisadero

2009

Louis Begley

Matters of Honor

2008

Philip Roth

Everyman

2008

John Updike

Terrorist

2007

Zadie Smith

On Beauty

2007

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

2006

Dan Sleigh

Islands

2006

Amitav Ghosh

The Hungry Tide

2005

Siri Hustvedt

What I Loved

2005

Cornelia Funke

Inkheart

2005

Günter Grass

Crabwalk

2004

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is Illuminated

2004

Karen Duve

Rain

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