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On around 1000 pages of writers Vesper creates the panorama of a bygone era in the East-West conflict. For this, he will now be honored with one of the most prestigious prizes. Excellent is also the biography of an explorer.
The author Guntram Vesper won with his exuberant history and history novel “Frohburg” the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. “A life rich book,” said presenter Dirk Knipphals at the award ceremony. “We like to believe him that his stories are true.” The award for the best nonfiction was awarded to Jürgen Goldstein for his discovery biography “Georg Forster. Between Freedom and Nature”. In the category Translation Brigitte Döbert won with the transfer of the avant-garde Serbian masterpiece “The tutors” of Bora Cosic. The prize of 45,000 Euro Leipzig Book Award is among the most important awards for authors in Germany. Contents were at the opening of the book fair, the themes Asylum and Refugees at the center.
Vesper deals in its more than 1,000-page novel with his birthplace Frohburg, a small town south of Leipzig. He spent childhood and youth, before the family fled in 1957 in the Federal Republic. The history of the place and the own family is intertwined with a great historical panorama.
Award-winning Author
“animated with high sensitivity for East-West phenomena of this opulent Roman things and events that threaten to disappear from the collective memory “, the jury said. Vesper is a freelance writer in Göttingen. He wrote poems, stories and plays and has already received many awards, including the Peter Huchel Price
The 74-year-old beat out fellow nominee authors Marion Poschmann ( “Borrowed Landscapes -. Didactic poems and Elegies “), Roland Schimmelpfennig (” on a clear, cold January morning at the beginning of the 21st century “), Nis-Momme Stockmann (” the fox “) and Heinz Strunk (” golden glove “) by. Last year had “won (Regentonnenvariationen2 first a poet the price.
concern for bourgeois order
This year’s main topic of the book fair with Jan Wagner)” Europe 21 “engaged renowned authors the responsibility the West for the plight of refugees and causes of flight in the spotlight. “we are not innocent, we are always part of the problem,” said Karim El-Gawhary ( “the fugitive”), head of the ORF studios in Cairo, with regard to the decades support dictatorial regimes in the Arab world.
the Syrian philosopher Sadik al-Azm, one of the most important progressive thinkers of the Arab world, called for increased understanding of the backgrounds of the civil war in his home country. According to the Islamic scholar Michael Lüders could the aggressive xenophobic actions in Germany trigger a defense of refugees -. to a “breakdown of civil order”
Under the motto “Europe 21 – thinking room for tomorrow’s society” » go authors, scientists and experts to Sunday the question of how can social coexistence look in the future, given the increasing immigration.
“Leipzig reads” expects 250,000 visitors
the theme escape moves also the children’s book market: Several of the 30 in the “Leipziger reading compass” excellent titles deal with this highly topical issue. “We want to make you want to read – and show what new books there are, also, on Integration, inclusion, migration and Living together”, said the chief executive of Reading Foundation, Jörg F. Maas
. Already at the start of the four-day marathon books thousands literature fans had flocked to the fairgrounds on Thursday. The spring meeting of the book industry is considered an important platform for authors, publishers, booksellers and literary agents. More than 2,200 exhibitors from 42 countries present their new program.
Unlike the Frankfurt Book Fair is the industry meeting in Leipzig on all days open to the general public. “Leipzig Reads” Together with the accompanying reading festival, the organizers expect to Sunday with around 250,000 visitors.
The following is the novel “Frohburg” on Amazon.
Find the Forster Biography at Amazon.
Awarded as the best translation book page on Amazon.
Source: n-tv.de
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