02-14-2019, 08:35 AM | #1 |
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New John Katzenbach books only in Spanish and German?
Two books by John Katzenbach, who's probably best known for Hart's War, seem to be only available in Spanish and German:
By Persons Unknown, 2017 (DE: Die Grausamen; ES: Personas desconocidas) The Analyst II, 2018 (DE: Der Verfolger; ES: Jaque al psicoanalista) Does anybody know if the original English books are available as ebooks? |
02-14-2019, 09:57 AM | #2 |
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How bizarre. I'd love to know what's going on. The Analyst was an excellent book. I'd love to read the sequel. But I can find no trace whatsoever of it in English.
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02-14-2019, 10:38 AM | #3 | |
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Yes, because the Spanish translations (Personas desconocidas, Jaque al psicoanalista) and the German translations (Die Grausamen, Der Verfolger) are available on Amazon.
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I sent this email to PRH Consumer Services on 15 February 2019:
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02-23-2019, 01:30 AM | #7 |
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The whole thing is very strange. This usually only happens if an author is dead and/or there are royalty disputes.
However, Katzenbach gave interviews in 2018 and seems to be very much alive. Maybe he fell out with his agent/publisher after selling the translation rights. |
02-25-2019, 02:18 AM | #8 |
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Still no further response from PRH. Have now written a completely fresh query in the hope that they will tag it as new and this time deal with it.
I have no idea what is going on. This is an English language author. The book would have been written in English. I can only imagine there is some sort of problem with the rights. |
02-25-2019, 02:34 AM | #9 |
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I somewhat doubt that they'll be able to answer your question. According to the author's website, his English publishers are Grove Altlantic (US) and Head of Zeus (UK). IMHO, It couldn't hurt to send your question to these publishers as well.
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02-28-2019, 01:28 AM | #11 |
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A further update. Firstly, I've exhausted options with PRH who say there is no English "translation". I have just sent a polite enquiry to John Katzenbach's agent who will hopefully take a moment to reply. I will of course post further if and when I hear anything.
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One Final update. John Katzenbach's agent was gracious enough to reply and very quickly. No details were given. I will quote the complete body of the reply verbatim:
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02-28-2019, 09:39 AM | #13 |
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03-01-2019, 08:08 AM | #14 |
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It is good to know that there will be an English version and "soon". The concern, of course, was that there was some king of rights dispute or other problem with the English version. We may never know why the translated versions were released first.
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03-11-2019, 09:21 AM | #15 | |
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The Mexican website El Financiero reported that Katzenbach is interested in a Netflix deal.
John Katzenbach quiere llevar sus libros a Netflix Quote:
Writer John Katzenbach, the author of books such as The Analyst, revealed in an interview for En EF and Por Adela that he hopes to sign a deal with Netflix to turn two of his books into TV series. "Absolutely, Netflix. I'm actually optimistic that I'm going to have a Netflix deal on a couple of old books,"* he replied to the question whether he'd be interested in turning his books into TV series. *I inserted his original answer here. The Spanish text mentions two books. This might explain why everyone is so tight-lipped. Last edited by Doitsu; 03-11-2019 at 09:28 AM. |
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