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Die Geschichten in uns
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Benedict Wells
The Stories Inside Us
About Writing and Life
Published by Diogenes as Die Geschichten in uns
Original Title: Die Geschichten in uns

How does a novel come into being? How do characters become lifelike and alive? What does ›to condense one’s style‹ mean? And how do you tackle crises? Using his own work, and other well-known works as examples, Benedict Wells tells of the magic and fascination of writing. But The Stories Inside Us is also a personal foray from his childhood to his first publications. A wise and moving book.
 

Contemporary Literature, Bestseller
400 pages
2024

978-3-257-07314-0
Benedict
Wells

Benedict Wells, born in Munich in 1984, moved to Berlin after completing school and focused on his writing, earning a living with various jobs. His fourth novel, The End of Loneliness, spent more than a year and a half on the Spiegel Bestseller list, was awarded the 2016 ›European Union Prize for Literature‹, among other awards, and has been published in 39 languages. His latest novel Hard Land was awarded the independent young adult jury’s ›German Youth Literature Award‹ in 2022. After several years in Barcelona, Benedict Wells now lives in Zurich.

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Cordt Schnibben
Die Zeit, Hamburg

»He conveys his hard-won knowledge of the novel with the precision of a heart surgeon, the mercilessness of a woodchopper, the ease of a ballerina.«

Katja Kraft
Münchner Merkur, Munich

»You will immediately want to seize pen and paper. Or – for God’s sake – the keyboard.«

Tim Felchlin
SRF2, Zurich

»Anyone interested in literature will find much to enrich them in this book.«