Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller.
Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984) was a Swiss traditionalist metaphysician, a leading member of the Perennialist or Traditionalist School. He was the author of numerous works on metaphysics, cosmology, anthropology, esoterism, alchemy, Sufism, symbolism and sacred art.
Karen Duve is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has been a freelance writer.
The Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems and essays.
Wilhelm Genazino was a German journalist and author. He worked first as a journalist for the satirical magazine pardon and for Lesezeichen. From the early 1970s, he was a freelance writer who became known by a trilogy of novels, Abschaffel-Trilogie, completed in 1979. It was followed by more novels and two plays. Among his many awards is the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize.
Goldmann is a publishing house in Munich and part of the Bertelsmann group belonging to the Random House Publishing Group. They are the best-selling commercial publishers in Germany, especially in paperbacks.
Adolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
Ulrich Peltzer is a German novelist.
Felicitas Hoppe is a German writer. She received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012.
The Heyne Verlag is a German publisher based in Munich, which was founded in Dresden in 1934 and sold to Axel Springer in 2000. In 2004 it became part of Random House. Heyne was one of the largest publishing houses in Germany in 1999.
Hans-Michael Bock is a German film historian, filmmaker, translator and writer.
Nora-Eugenie Gomringer is a German and Swiss poet and writer. She won the 2013 Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft and the 2015 Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis
Ulrike Draesner is a German author. She was awarded the 2016 Nicolas Born Prize.
Nino Haratischwili (Georgian: ნინო ხარატიშვილი; is a Georgian novelist, playwright, and theater director, living and working in Hamburg, Germany and writing in German. She has received numerous awards, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, and the Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft.
Matthias Nawrat is a German writer.
Blanvalet is a German publishing house, based in Munich, which was founded in 1935 in Berlin and is now part of the Bertelsmann's Random House publishing group. Blanvalet publishes entertainment literature and non-fiction, first in hardcover, and as paperbacks since 1998. The publisher became well known with the novel series "Angélique". More recent authors include Charlotte Link, Marc Elsberg, Karin Slaughter, Diana Gabaldon and George R. R. Martin.
Norbert Scheuer is a German author.
Jonas Lüscher is a Swiss-German writer and essayist.
Odile Kennel is a German writer of French origin known for her poetry and prose, as well as her translations.
Ilma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
