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. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.
Books in English and German in order of publication and category:
Literary works in German
1962 Der Andere
1987 Selbstjustiz (Self’s Punishment; with Walter Popp)
1988 Die gordische Schleife (The Gordian Knot), Zurich: Diogenes
1992 Selbstbetrug, Zurich: Diogenes
1995 Der Vorleser (The Reader), Zurich: Diogenes
2000 Liebesfluchten (Flights of Love), Zurich: Diogenes
2001 Selbstmord (Self’s Murder), Zurich: Diogenes
2006 Die Heimkehr (Homecoming: A Novel), Zurich: Diogenes
2008 Das Wochenende (The Weekend: A Novel), Zurich: Diogenes
2010 Sommerlügen – Geschichten (~ Summer Lies: Stories), Zurich: Diogenes
2011 Gedanken über das Schreiben. Heidelberger Poetikvorlesungen. (Essays) Zurich: Diogenes
2014 Die Frau auf der Treppe. (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes
2018 Olga (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes
2020 Abschiedsfarben Zurich: Diogenes
2021 Die Enkelin (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes
Other works in German
1976 Abwägung im Verfassungsrecht, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot
1980 Rechtlicher Wandel durch richterliche Entscheidung: Beitraege zu einer Entscheidungstheorie der richterlichen Innovation, co-edited with Jan Harenburg and Adalbert Podlech, Darmstadt: Toeche-Mittler
1982 Die Amtshilfe: Ein Beitrag zu einer Lehre von der Gewaltenteilung in der Verwaltung, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
1985 Grundrechte, Staatsrecht II, co-authored with Bodo Pieroth, Heidelberg: C.F. Müller
2002 Polizei- und Ordnungsrecht, co-authored with Bodo Pieroth and Michael Kniesel, Munich: Beck
2005 Vergewisserungen: über Politik, Recht, Schreiben und Glauben, Zurich: Diogenes
2015 Erkundungen zu Geschichte, Moral Recht und Glauben, Zurich: Diogenes[13]
Titles in English
1997 The Reader, translated by Carol Brown Janeway, New York: Pantheon Books
2001 Flights of Love: Stories, translated by John E. Woods, New York: Pantheon Books
2005 Self’s Punishment, Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp, translated by Rebecca Morrison, New York: Vintage Books
2007 Self’s Deception, translated by Peter Constantine, New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
2007 Homecoming translated by Michael Henry Heim, New York: Pantheon Books
2009 Self’s Murder, translated by Peter Constantine, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
2009 Guilt about the Past, University of Queensland Press, 9 January 2009, Beautiful Books Limited (UK) February 2010
2010 The Weekend: A Novel, translated by Shaun Whiteside – October 2010
2012 Summer Lies (short stories), translated by Carol Brown Janeway, New York: Pantheon Books
2016 The Woman on the Stairs. (Novel), translated by Joyce Hackett and Bradley Schmidt. London: Orion
2020 Olga. (Novel), translated by Charlotte Collins, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
2024 The Granddaughter, translated by Charlotte Collins, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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