A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry , and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future. First-time novelists without a previous published reputation, such as publication in nonfiction, magazines, or literary journals , typically struggle to find a publisher.
16-444: Bellies is Nicola Dinan's debut novel , published by Hanover Square Press in 2023. Set in London, Bellies follows the story of Ming and Tom, two lovers who meet at a drag party, both dressed as women. Ming begins to transition and accept herself as a trans women. Tom, a gay man, is less attracted to his partner as she transitions and Ming ends the relationship. Ming writes a play about
32-600: A large print run. By comparison, bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey sold 14,814 copies in its first week, or later popular novels, like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , only receive small initial print runs. Debut novels that do well will be reprinted as sales increase due to word of mouth popularity of the novels—publishers do not often run large marketing campaigns for debut novelists. There are numerous literary prizes for debut novels often associated with genre or nationality. These prizes are in recognition of
48-655: A product of all of their life before that moment. Often an author's first novel will not be as complex stylistically or thematically as subsequent works and often will not feature the author's typical literary characteristics . Huffington Post ' s Dave Astor attributes these to two forces: first that authors are still learning their own unique style and audiences are more willing to read works from unknown authors if they resemble more conventional styles of literature. As examples, Astor points to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937), Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman (1969) and Charles Dickens' The Posthumous Papers of
64-412: A small monetary advance before publication of their debut novel; in the rare exceptions when a large print run and high volume of sales are anticipated, the advance can be larger. For an example of an unusually high advance: in 2013, the highly anticipated City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg captured the attention of ten publishers who started a bidding war that ended with Knopf buying the rights to
80-436: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a novel is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about Novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Debut novel Sometimes new novelists will self-publish their debut novels, because publishing houses will not risk the capital needed to market books by an unknown author to
96-2319: Is valued at 10,000 Euros. Past recipients include Georg Büchner Prize -winner Felicitas Hoppe and Nobel Prize -winner Herta Müller . The award was established in 1979. Winners [ edit ] 1979 Hanns-Josef Ortheil for Fermer 1980 Michael Schneider for Das Spiegelkabinett 1981 Thomas Hürlimann for Die Tessinerin 1982 Inge Merkel for Das andere Gesicht 1983 Zsuzsanna Gahse for Zero 1983 Beat Sterchi for Blösch 1984 Herta Müller for Niederungen 1985 Jochen Beyse for Der Aufklärungsmacher 1986 Barbara Honigmann for Roman von einem Kinde 1987 Erich Hackl for Auroras Anlaß 1988 Christa Moog for Aus tausend grünen Spiegeln 1989 Irina Liebmann for Mitten im Krieg 1990 Ulrich Woelk for Freigang 1991 Burkhard Spinnen for Dicker Mann im Meer 1992 Dagmar Leupold for Edmond 1993 Manfred Rumpl for Koordinaten der Liebe 1994 Radek Knapp for Franio 1995 Ingo Schulze for 33 Augenblicke des Glücks 1996 Felicitas Hoppe for Picknick der Friseure 1997 Zoë Jenny for Das Blütenstaubzimmer 1998 John von Düffel for Vom Wasser 1999 Christoph Peters for Stadt Land Fluß 2000 Andreas Maier for Wäldchestag 2001 Sherko Fatah for Im Grenzland 2002 Zsuzsa Bánk for Der Schwimmer 2003 Roswitha Haring for Ein Bett aus Schnee 2004 Thomas Stangl for Der einzige Ort 2005 Jens Petersen for Die Haushälterin 2006 Paul Ingendaay for Warum Du mich verlassen hast 2007 Thomas von Steinaecker for Wallner beginnt zu fliegen 2008 María Cecilia Barbetta for Änderungsschneiderei Los Milagros 2009 Stephan Thome for Grenzgang 2010 Dorothee Elmiger for Einladung an die Waghalsigen 2011 Eugen Ruge for In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts 2012 Teresa Präauer for Für den Herrscher aus Übersee 2013 Eberhard Rathgeb for Kein Paar wie wir 2014 Katja Petrowskaja for Vielleicht Esther 2015 Kat Kaufmann for Superposition 2016 Philipp Winkler for Hool 2017 Juliana Kálnay for Eine kurze Chronik des allmählichen Verschwindens 2018 Bettina Wilpert for nichts,
112-610: The Oxford English Dictionary , the earliest attested usage of "first novel" is from 1876. However, the term is much older, with instances going back to at least 1800. The Oxford English Dictionary does not have an entry for "debut novel". The earliest usage of "debut novel" in the Google Books database is 1930 (as of 2011 ). The term appears in newspapers as early as 1922, in a review of Marjorie L.C. Pickthall 's novel The Bridge . The Google Books Ngram Viewer shows
128-700: The Pickwick Club (1837), all of which lack the complexity or stylistic characteristics which audiences praise in the authors' later work. There are however some debut novels that are regarded as the author's masterpiece , for example Gustave Flaubert 's Madame Bovary , Joseph Heller 's Catch 22 , Günter Grass ' The Tin Drum and Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart . Sometimes, instead of writing novels to begin their career, some authors will start with short stories , which can be easier to publish and allow authors to get started in writing fiction. According to
144-456: The big, and often very public, "to do" about debut novels and novelists created by these book awards, as associated with the excitement of finding authors and writers without established legacies. In the same piece for the Times , Ayana Mathis describes the debut novel as "a piece of the writer's soul in a way that subsequent books can't ever be", because the novel is necessarily a work of passion and
160-648: The book for 2 million dollars. The book's film production rights were purchased soon after by producer Scott Rudin . For similar reasons that advances are frequently not very large—novels frequently do not sell well until the author gains a literary reputation. There are exceptions, however; YouTuber Zoella published her debut novel Girl Online in November 2014, and the book sold 78,109 copies in Britain in its first week. The novel saw huge sales because she already had an established audience, and publishers were willing to run
176-455: The breakup, angering Tom. The novel was positively reviewed in The Guardian , The Times , and The Skinny . In December 2022, it was announced that Element Pictures plans to create an adaptation of the novel. The book was nominated for a 2023 Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction. This article about a non-fiction book on lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topics
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#1732845594233192-785: The difficulties faced by debut novelists and bring attention to deserving works and authors. Some of the more prestigious awards around the world include the American Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award , the French Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman , the British Guardian First Book Award , the German Aspekte-Literaturpreis and the Japanese Noma Literary Prize . The New York Times commentator Leslie Jamison described
208-588: The public. Most publishers purchase rights to novels, especially debut novels, through literary agents , who screen client work before sending it to publishers. These hurdles to publishing reflect both publishers' limits in resources for reviewing and publishing unknown works, and that readers typically buy more books from established authors with a reputation than from first-time writers. For this reason, literary communities have created awards that help acknowledge exceptional debut novels. In contemporary British and American publishing markets, most authors receive only
224-572: The term becoming more widely used after about 1980, gaining in popularity since. Aspekte-Literaturpreis German literary award The Aspekte-Literaturpreis ( Aspekte Literature Prize) is awarded annually for the best debut novel written in German, as judged by a panel of writers, critics, and scholars. The prize is sponsored by the ZDF television network through its arts program, Aspekte [ de ] . It
240-848: Was uns passiert 2019 Miku Sophie Kühmel [ de ] for Kintsugi 2020 Deniz Ohde for Streulicht 2021 Ariane Koch for Die Aufdrängung 2022 Sven Pfizenmaier for Draußen feiern die Leute 2023 Charlotte Gneuß for Gittersee References [ edit ] ^ "Preise & Stipendien" . aspekte-Literaturpreis (in German) . Retrieved 3 March 2021 . ^ "aspekte-Literaturpreis" . Literaturpreis Gewinner (in German). 29 July 2011 . Retrieved 3 March 2021 . ^ "aspekte-Literaturpreis" . kulturpreise.de . 2018 . Retrieved 3 March 2021 . ^ " "aspekte"-Preis an Bettina Wilpert" . Die Welt (in German). 7 October 2018 . Retrieved 9 January 2022 . ^ "Nichts,
256-1955: Was uns passiert" . Goethe-Institut Portugal (in German). 13 June 2021 . Retrieved 9 January 2022 . ^ "ZDF-"aspekte"-Literaturpreis für Miku Sophie Kühmel" . Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). 26 October 2019 . Retrieved 9 January 2022 . ^ "Deniz Ohde erhält "Aspekte"-Literaturpreis 2020 für "Streulicht" " . Der Standard (in German). 12 October 2020 . Retrieved 9 January 2022 . ^ " "aspekte-Literaturpreis" geht an Deniz Ohde für "Streulicht": ZDF Presseportal" . presseportal.zdf.de (in German). 1 January 1970 . Retrieved 9 January 2022 . ^ "Streulicht" . Deniz Ohde (in German). 29 June 2021 . Retrieved 9 January 2022 . ^ "aspekte-Literaturpreis 2021 an Ariane Koch für "Die Aufdrängung" " . ZDFmediathek (in German). 22 October 2021 . Retrieved 9 January 2022 . ^ Koch, Ariane. "ZDF-"aspekte"-Literaturpreis 2021 geht an Ariane Koch" . Suhrkamp Verlag (in German) . Retrieved 9 January 2022 . ^ "Pressemitteilung" . ZDF Presseportal (in German). 1 January 1970 . Retrieved 2 December 2022 . ^ " "aspekte"-Literaturpreis 2023 geht an Charlotte Gneuß" . ZDF Presseportal (in German) . Retrieved 23 September 2024 . External links [ edit ] Aspekte website (in German) Authority control databases : National [REDACTED] Germany Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aspekte-Literaturpreis&oldid=1247209122 " Categories : ZDF German literary awards First book awards 1979 establishments in Germany Awards established in 1979 Hidden categories: CS1 German-language sources (de) Articles with short description Short description
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