Jenny Erpenbeck

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    The Old Child & Other Stories (October 2005)
  • Last Book:
    Things That Disappear (October 2025)
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Books in Order: 7 titles

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  • Things That Disappear

    An exciting new collection of autobiographical essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the 2024 Booker International Prize: “She is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have -- it’s no surprise that she is already bruited as a futu...

  • Kairos

    Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporatesWINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATION...

  • Go, Went, Gone

    New York Times Notable Book 2018; Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018; Lois Roth Award WinnerAn unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: “Erpenbeck will get under your skin” (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone...

  • The End of Days

    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erp...

  • Visitation

    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors. A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompas...

  • The Book of Words

    A searing novella about coming of age in a land of tyranny, by one of Germany's most brilliant young authors. In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime o...

  • The Old Child & Other Stories

    The Old Child & Other Stories introduces in English one of Germany’s most original and brilliant young authors, Jenny Erpenbeck.

    Written in spare, highly concentrated language, "a sustained feat of verbal economy" (Die Zeit), the one novella...



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Jenny Erpenbeck has published 7 books.

Jenny Erpenbeck does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Things That Disappear, was published in October 2025.

The first book by Jenny Erpenbeck, The Old Child & Other Stories, was published in October 2005.

No. Jenny Erpenbeck does not write books in series.
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