Daniel Speck

Daniel Speck is an award-winning screenwriter for film and TV and a bestselling novelist. He was born in 1969 in Munich and studied literature, film history, and screenwriting in Munich and Rome. A passionate traveler, lover of Mediterranean countries, and builder of bridges between cultures, he draws his inspirations for his films and novels from the personal stories of people he encounters. His debut novel, Anywhere But Home, originally published as Bella Germania and translated into seven languages, was on the Spiegel bestseller list for eighty-five weeks.

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Awards: 2021 Book of the Year WINNER
2021 Big Book 3. WINNER
2021 National Bestseller longlist
2014 Big Book shortlist
2014 Russian Booker Prize shortlist
2014 NOS Award shortlist

Foreign rights in general:
Bulgaria/ Aviana
Estonia/ Kunst
France/ Belfond
Germany/ dtv
Lebanon/ Arab Scientific Publishers
Macedonia/ Ars Lamina
Romania
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