Der Deutsche Buchpreis als Erfolgsgarant für deutsche Literatur im Ausland? Das Beispiel von Julia Francks Die Mittagsfrau

The German Book Prize can be considered an important international success driver for its laureates. Their Foreign Rights sales are much higher than those of other prize-winning books. This is due to the remarkable economic and symbolic capital and especially the general publicity the German Book Prize generates. The following article wants to show how these factors favour the transfer of German contemporary fiction into French on the basis of Julia Franck’s novel Die Mittagsfrau.