Attention bookworms: We now love these young authors and their debuts in spring 2025

The annual book fair (March 27 to March 30) is taking place in Leipzig. A lively meeting point for enthusiastic literature and a place where stories awakened to life. This year, too, many new young authors are in the spotlight who enter the literary stage with fresh perspectives and brave stories. And want to be seen there!

In her debut, the Japanese sociologist and columnist Suzumi Suzuki, the complex relationship between a writer and her daughter. Together they live in a small apartment in the red light district of Tokios, the daughter works as a hostess. With a concise clarity, the 41-year-old author illuminates the topics of female self-empowerment, love and violence. Because there are abysses under the crystal -clear surface that inevitably let readers ask: What are we ready to give for the people we love? A short, impressive novel that has absolutely tough and hit high waves internationally!

In the debut of the 32-year-old Nora Osagiobar from Zurich, Toni, daughter of a Swiss and a Nigerian, maneuvers, through the chaos of her family and the challenges of everyday racism. In addition to the social prejudices, you put a strain on your family's strange obsessions for insurance policies, affairs and garden fences. Her constant headache and the constant comparison with her superior twin sister also make life difficult for her. Only her daily SoAP-OPERA offers you a short escape until it is no longer sufficient. At the same time, the family fashion label getsBanal & BodecaIn a shitstorm and plans to produce a reality show with black actors in order to invalidate allegations of racism. When the paths of the two families cross, unexpected complications arise. A gripping mix of humor, realism and sharp social criticism, almost like a soap opera. Great!

The search for identity and belonging in a torn world actually drives us all. And that's exactly what Aria's debut novel acts. The German author lives in Los Angeles and has already successfully published texts in The New Yorker or the New Republic. Place of action of her first novel: the pulsating underworld of Berlin, where 19-year-old Nila is looking for an escape from the narrowing of her plate building in endless cellar halls. With an urgent and at the same time poetic language, the German author living in Los Angeles paints one strong picture after another. Of places, but also from people who strive for freedom in the middle of violence and prejudices. Just like Nila, who tries to escape in the darkness of the clubs of their world, characterized by racist smearings and cramped conditions. The moving portrait of a young woman who changes between the worlds and discovered hope in music and community!

That's what it's all about: Referner Franka visits the NSU trial with her class, accompanied by her roommate Hannah, a court reporter. This process tears out old wounds at Franka and she returns to her home country to get to the bottom of them. She remembers her demented grandmother, the "Fuchsin", and her deceased father and discovers a family secret through her aunt Jule that shakes her life ... With "Underground", the Nuremberg author, born in 1990, succeeded in a shocking debut. From a youth in the country, friendships that are politically showing a questionable path. Of anger and the search for belonging. But always without being instructive. A literary valuable work that hopefully will also be filmed!