Hooligan: A Novel

By Philipp Winkler

A lead title

A searing, lyrical, prize-winning debut novel that offers a devastating portrait of working-class, post-industrial life on the fringes and a universal story about masculinity in the twenty-first century

Legitimately comparable in its language and impact to Chuck Palahniuk's debut, Fight Club, and to enduring works about the underside and society's failures, like Celine's Journey to the End of Night

The desperation and pent-up violence of the "losers" in the novel's world—the ones left behind—resonate deeply in post-election, Trump America

40,000 copies sold in Germany, and rights have been sold into seven territories: France, Spain (and Latin America, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, the Czech Republic, as well as World English to Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Release date: Apr 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781628728682

Philipp Winkler

Philipp Winkler was born in 1986 and grew up in the small town of Hagenburg, near Hannover, Germany. He studied creative writing in Hildesheim. He has spent time in Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, and Japan. Winkler received the Joseph Heinrich Colbin Prize in 2008, and in 2015 the Literaturhaus Graz awarded him the Retzhof Prize for young authors based on excerpts from his then unpublished novel, Hooligan, which went on to win the Aspekte Literature Prize for the best German-language debut in 2016. Hooligan was also shortlisted for the 2016 German Book Prize. Winkler lives in Leipzig, Germany.