The Night Porter’s Rounds by Matias Riikonen is travelling to Germany, where it will be published by Karl Rauch.
Karl Rauch Verlag has acquired the German rights to The Night Porter’s Rounds (Iltavahtimestarin kierrokset) by Matias Riikonen, marking the first foreign deal for this title. Karl Rauch is already the German home of Matara, Riikonen’s award-winning fourth novel.
The Night Porter’s Rounds is based off of Riikonen’s own experience of walking by night in Helsinki along the same route for a couple of years. He is met with darkness, light, people from all walks of life, and the silent presence of the night sky.
Matias Riikonen (b. 1989) debuted with the novel The Gull with Four Wings (2012), which was a nominee for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize. His second novel Grand Fugue and prose notebook Orbit (2017) were Toisinkoinen award nominees and awarded the Kalevi Jäntti Prize. The Night Porter’s Rounds (2019) was a nominee for the Jarkko Laine Prize. Matara (2021) won the Jarkko Laine Prize, and has been sold to four language territories.
Karl Rauch Verlag is a literary house that prouds itself for publishing classics such as Don Quijote and The Little Prince in German, as well as modern fiction of high literary quality.
Congratulations to the author and the publisher!