- The Leipzig Book Fair opens on Wednesday night.
- The “Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding” goes to the Romanian Mircea Cartarescu.
- Awards are in the categories Fiction ., translation and nonfiction
Leipzig is dedicated to the book fair and traditional reading festival “Leipzig Reads!”: The annual spring show by the German publishing industry will be officially opened on Wednesday evening with a ceremony at the Gewandhaus , The prize of EUR 15 000 Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding will be awarded during the event to the Romanian author Mircea Cartarescu.
The postmodern author with his psychedelic and apocalyptic world visions very successful in Romania where it reaches above-average conditions .
Overall, the organizers expect from Thursday to Sunday about 235 000 visitors at the exhibition center and at readings or discussion in the city. At the fairgrounds represent about 2,000 exhibitors present their latest books. Focus this year is the German-Israeli relationship over the past 50 years.
To read 410 locations in the city about 3000 Authors on the traditional harvest festival “Leipzig Reads!” from their works before. The thematic focus is next to Germany and Israel, the 25th anniversary of German reunification this year.
At the Leipzig Book Fair numerous other prizes will be awarded, culminating in the award of the Leipzig Book Fair in the categories of fiction, translation . and non-fiction / essay
The nominees are in the category of non-fiction / essay
- Philipp FELSCH: “The Long Summer theory, history of revolt 1960-1990.” (published by CH Beck)
- Karl-Heinz Göttert “myth speech power Another History of Rhetoric.” (S. Fischer Verlag)
- Reiner Stach: “Kafka The Early Years” (p. Fischer Verlag)
- Philipp Ther “. The new order on the Old Continent A History of the neo-liberal Europe” (Suhrkamp Verlag)
- Joseph Vogl: “The sovereignty effect” (diaphanes)
In the category translation to occur:
- Klaus Binder, from Latin Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things” translated (Galiani Verlag Berlin).
- Elisabeth EDL for their translation from the French by Patrick Modianos “grasses of the Night” (Carl Hanser Verlag).
- Moshe Kahn for the translation from Stefano D’Arrigo Italienischenvon book “Horcynus Orca” (S. . Fischer Verlag)
- Mirjam Pressler, which transferred from the Hebrew Amos Oz’s “Judas” (Suhrkamp Verlag) into German
- Thomas Steinfeld translated from Swedish: “Nils Holgersson’s wonderful journey . by Sweden “by Selma Lagerlöf (The Other Library)
The greatest attention is paid to the Leipzig Book Award for fiction, for the five authors are also nominated:
The Book: make good art – like Johnny and Jean, as they meet after the summer in the art school again. Hundred steps are to be done for an international career. In many episodes it comes to the adventurous life of two young men
The jury :. “” Johnny and Jean “tells the story of two friends who set off in the city and as an artist you seek happiness The sketchy hingetuschte narrative leaves open what is truth and what is imagination and is also a virtuoso with pictures “
About the author:.. Teresa Präauer, 1979 in Linz ( Austria) was born, is considered one of the great hopes of German literature. She studied German literature and painting in Berlin, Salzburg and Vienna and lives in Vienna. Her first novel, “For the Emperor from overseas” 2012 was honored with the “aspects” -Literaturpreis for the best prose debut
The book:. With its surprising debut novel sets the already 40 year old author Ursula Ackrill before a previously unwritten chapter in the history of Transylvania Saxons. It tells of opportunism and cowardice in a small town and describes invite such people in January 1941 blame
The jury. “A striking dense and arabeskenreiches tissue of human body and things , Saxony pride and home to urge progress and ruthlessness, Paradise and the Fall “
About the author:. Ursula Ackrill, born in 1974 in Transylvania (Romania), studied German and Theology in Bucharest and received his Ph.D. in 2003 with a thesis on Christa Wolf. She works as a librarian in Nottingham (UK)
The book:. For the first time, a book of poems for the Leipzig Book Award nomination. Wagner is concerned with the nature in its various forms: from willow catkins and strangler fig to Olm and Otter
The jury. “A book of poems in which the rain barrel to the piñata is that Giersch to spray, weed and impure rhyme lend their charm and playfulness does not make the language in the strict forms maintenance: Poetry full presence of mind “
About the Author:. “pilot hole in the sky” was the first, released in 2001 volume of poetry, born 1971 in Hamburg, poet, essayist and translator. Since Wagner, who now lives in Berlin, was honored with numerous awards. Wagner studied English in Hamburg, Dublin and Berlin
The book:. Paul Arimond takes 2003 as the German Army medics to Afghanistan. Even his great-great grandfather was touring the country – in search of the universal language of birds. Paul also loves to watch birds. Amid the threat his action is increasingly unpredictable
The jury. “Extremely tight tells Norbert Scheuer of a young man who goes voluntarily as medical soldier in Afghanistan A novel about remembering and. Remember to death, guilt and war, but also about the beauty of nature, the poetry of the language and the flight of birds “
About the Author:. Norbert Scheuer was launched in 1951 in Rhineland-Palatinate Eifel town Prüm with the world and studied physical technology and philosophy. His novel “rock collector” made him famous in 1999. This was followed by works such as “Downstream”, “Above the Noise” and “Peehs love.” Among other things, he was awarded the Prize for Literature of the Arts Foundation of NRW and the Düsseldorf literary prize. Scheuer lives in the Eifel
The book:. It’s about the relationship of the young Matthias to his disabled brother who lives on Sylt in a home. During a visit Matthias in love with the supervisor’s brother. She leads him into radical student groups
The jury. “In” The smile of alligators “is the savvy novel designer wild grove to train and convincingly combines all the threads of early pathology with a . history of revolt “
About the Author: In the early eighties was engaged born 1958 in Berlin Michael wild grove in the squatter scene – here playing his first realistic stories. Last (2005) and “dreamers of the Absolute” novels published “Russian bread” (2008). Wild grove plays are part of the repertoire of renowned theaters. He received, among others the Alfred Döblin Prize.
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