Kookbooks

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Daniela Seel at the booth of the Kookbooks Verlag at the Lyrikmarkt in Berlin 2014

kookbooks is an independent publisher founded in 2003 and based in Berlin . The publisher's focus is on contemporary poetry and prose ; In addition, essays , translations of foreign language poetry and unusual children's books are published.

Development of the publishing house

The publishing house developed from the artist network KOOK (Berlin – New York), which has existed as a music and literature label since 1999. Kookbooks was founded in spring 2003 by the poet and editor Daniela Seel and the artist and graphic designer Andreas Töpfer. The name is derived from the English kook , which colloquially means crazy, crazy .

On the initiative of the publishers kookbooks and Blumenbar , the first “meeting of young independent publishers” took place in Berlin in May 2005, which was intended to promote the exchange of experiences and stronger networking among each other. In 2009, the publisher was one of the initiators of the Hotlist , the annual book prize awarded by independent publishers.

Awards

Several of the publisher's books were selected by the Book Art Foundation as the most beautiful German books of the year. Publishing authors have been awarded some significant literary prizes, such as Uljana Wolf with the Peter Huchel Prize 2006, Monika Rinck with the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry in 2008, Steffen Popp with the Rauris Literature Prize 2007, Ron Winkler , Christian Schloyer , Steffen Popp, Katharina Schultens and Yevgeniy Breyger each with the Leonce and Lena Prize (2005, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2019) and Michael Stavarič with the Austrian State Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature 2007.

In 2006, kookbooks was awarded the Kurt Wolff Prize for its overall program . The jury justified its choice with the fact that the publisher “succeeded in a short time in setting new, refreshing accents in the book industry as a young, risk-taking and innovative publisher with professional commitment, its sense of literary talent and its carefully made books ".

In August 2006, a book by the publisher was nominated for the German Book Prize for the first time with Steffen Popp's debut novel, or the way there , followed by Pierangelo Maset's Laura or Die Tücken der Kunst 2007. In the same year, the publisher's founder Daniela Seel was awarded the Horst Prize. Bienek Prize for Poetry .

2015 was the publisher for the publication of Risk and Idiocy. Policies by Monika Rinck awarded the hotlist . In 2019 he received one of the three main prizes of the German Publishing Prize, which was awarded for the first time .

Authors

literature

  • Uwe Wittstock: Daniela Seel: Kookbooks or The Possible Impossible . In: Uwe Wittstock: The book drunkards. Forays into the literature business . Dietrich zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-86674-005-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kook in the English-language Wiktionary
  2. ↑ Communication from the Kurt Wolff Foundation dated November 29, 2005.
  3. ↑ German Publishing Prize: Main prizes go to Hädecke, kookbooks and Spector Books. In: buchmarkt.de. October 18, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019 .