A book for the city
A book for the city is a selected book that has been the focus of an annual campaign since 2003 to promote literature and literary understanding in Cologne and the region between the Eifel and Bergisches Land . The initiators are the Literaturhaus Köln and the daily newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .
The book selected by the initiators in spring / summer will be the subject of numerous events in autumn of the year: readings , lectures, discussions, plays , up to meals in restaurants or readings in the tram. Anyone can participate with an action, individuals as well as literary circles , bookstores or school classes.
The selected book will be issued as a special edition and sold in bookshops in the region at a particularly low price.
The previous books for the city:
- 2003 The Artificial Silk Girl of Irmgard Keun
- 2004 When a traveler from Italo Calvino on a winter night
- 2005 South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
- 2006 Snow from Orhan Pamuk . - A few months after selecting the book for 2006, Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature . One of the reasons mentioned was his novel Snow .
- 2007 The beautiful font by Rafael Chirbes
- 2008 Not Chicago. Not here. by Kirsten Boie
- 2009 Snow in the Ardennes by Jürgen Becker
- 2010 Überm Rauschen by Norbert Scheuer
- 2011 White Raven, Black Lamb by Jovan Nikolić
- 2012 Thyme and Stones by Sumaya Farhat-Naser and A Nice Assassination by Assaf Gavron
- 2013 idyll with drowning dog by Michael Köhlmeier
- 2014 worm mill of Jochen Schmidt
- 2015 A hand full of stars by Rafik Schami
- 2016 First gray, then white, then blue by Margriet de Moor
- 2017 Superhero by Anthony McCarten
- 2018 Vienna by Eva Menasse
- 2019 Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen , translated by Helene Seidler
Similar actions
Similar actions are carried out under different names in other regions and cities:
- A city reads a book , a general article
- A city. A book. in Vienna
- Frankfurt reads a book in Frankfurt am Main
literature
- Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 21./22. October 2006 (weekend edition)
- Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from April 23, 2007 for the book 2007
- Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 26./27. April 2014 (weekend edition) for the 2014 book