Moth Books swoops for two 'future classics' from Iris Wolff

Moth Books has swooped for Blurred and Clearings in a two-book deal with German author Iris Wolff.

Managing director Monique Charlesworth acquired UK and ANZ rights from German publisher Klett-Cotta. Blurred will be published in 2025 with Clearings to follow in early 2026. Both novels will be translated by Ruth Martin. 

Pitched as Wolff’s "breakthrough novel", Blurred follows a young man fleeing the Ceaușescu regime. "Compact and vivid", the publisher wrote, "this moving family saga is deeply informed by the fall of the eastern block and Wolff’s own family history". 

Clearings is a story of migration and friendship. The narrative charts the relationship between a girl and a boy, told backwards from the present day where the girl, impelled to leave her homeland, sends a postcard to the boy from their village. 

Charlesworth commented: "[Wolff] has it all. Her books travel in time and across borders, they address the complexity of history using every shade of feeling—and such exciting plots. Readers and booksellers adore her. I’m thrilled to introduce these future classics to the English-speaking world."