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Frankfurt am Main (Fra) - Tonio Schachinger has won the German Book Prize for his novel “Echtzeitalter” (“Realtimes”) (Rowohlt Verlag). Statement from the jury: “At first glance, Tonio Schachinger’s ‘Echtzeitalter’ is a school story. At second glance, it is much more than that: a social novel that describes its hero Till’s coming-of-age at an elite ...
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Frankfurt am Main (ots) - Kim de l'Horizon has won the German Book Prize 2022 for their novel “Blutbuch” (DuMont). Statement from the jury: “With tremendous creative energy, the non-binary narrator of Kim de l'Horizon ’s novel ‘Blutbuch’ (‘Blood Book’) searches for a language of their own. What narratives exist for a body that eludes conventional ...
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Frankfurt am Main (ots) - The winner of the German Book Prize 2020 is Anne Weber for her novel "Annette, ein Heldinnenepos" (Matthes & Seitz Berlin). Statement from the jury: "The power of Anne Weber's story is equal to the power of her heroine: It is breathtaking how fresh the old form of the epic sounds here and ...
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Frankfurt am Main (ots) - The winner of the German Book Prize 2019 is Sasa Stanisic for his novel "Herkunft" (Luchterhand). Statement from the jury: "Sasa Stanisic is such a good storyteller that he even distrusts storytelling. Beneath each sentence in this novel the unavailable origins lurk, which simultaneously ...
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Frankfurt am Main (ots) - The winner of the German Book Prize 2018 is Inger-Maria Mahlke for her novel "Archipel" (Rowohlt). Statement from the jury: "The archipelago lies at the outermost edge of Europe; the setting is the island of Tenerife, a nucleus of colonial history and of the history of 20th-century European dictatorships. Inger-Maria Mahlke writes about the ...
