Lit in Translation

Norbert Scheuer

Born 1951 · Germany

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Deutscher Buchpreis 2019 · Shortlist

    Winterbienen

    Title translated by AI:“Winter Bees”

    Norbert Scheuer · 68 when first published

    Novel · 318 pages · Historical, War, Nature

    AI-generated summary:January 1944: Egidius Arimond, a teacher dismissed from his school, risks everything by smuggling Jews into occupied Belgium in prepared beehives, while bombers circle over the Eifel and his epilepsy medicine runs out.

  • No English yet

    Deutscher Buchpreis 2009 · Shortlist

    Überm Rauschen

    Title translated by AI:“Above the Rushing Water”

    Norbert Scheuer · 58 when first published

    Novel · 165 pages · Family, Nature

    AI-generated summary:A younger brother returns to the inn of his childhood, where the sound of the weir once fed his imagination. Their father is dead and his older brother is losing his mind; standing in the river, fishing, he looks back on his family's life.