14 writers’ associations and 27 publishing partners have since joined the JA…-Initiative. In November 2011, Nina George established the “JA zum Urheberrecht” (YES on Author’s Rights) initiative, which supports the rights of authors, artists and entertainers and is dedicated to resolving issues within the literary community as well as establishing fair and practical rights-license models for the web-distribution. In 2013 she had her first bestselling book “Das Lavendelzimmer”, translated in 27 langues and sold more than 500.000 copies. In 20 she won the DeLiA and the Glauser-Prize. Georges writes also under three pen-names, for ex “Jean Bagnol”, a double-andronym for provence-based mystery novels.

George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist and managing editor for a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, “politik und kultur” as well as TV Movie and Federwelt. Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.īorn 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany, Nina George is a prize-winning and bestselling author (“Das Lavendelzimmer” – “The Little Paris Bookshop”) and freelance journalist since 1992, who has published 26 books (novels, mysteries and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.Īfter Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared.

Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.” It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. There are even remedies-I mean books-that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. “There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred.

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