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Now the nominees have been announced for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. In the categories fiction, nonfiction and translation to five candidates can calculate odds on the coveted prize. He is endowed with 60,000 euros and is on 17 March, the first day of the Book Fair, awarded.
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Marion Poschmann is nominated for “Borrowed Landscapes. didactic poems and elegies”. The author lives in Berlin. The jury of the Leipzig Book Fair says about her book: “daring metaphors, always thoughtful, abundant flora and the darkest melancholy: This extraordinary book of poetry jumps from the garden to the city, from childhood memories in the present, of the GDR to Japan, from didactic poem elegy for. “
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Nis-Momme Stockmann comes from the North Sea island of Fohr. His work includes plays, radio plays, poetry, prose and essays. For his debut novel “The Fox” was nominated directly for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. The jury: “The novel debut of playwright Stockmann is a literary union whose apocalyptic opening tableau stricken by a of a flood, mythical town throws back the narrator in a fascinatingly evocative memory power in his childhood, each with their own vibrations.”
> li> - “This author can write about iciness – and through people in the presence of their lives has become too tight,” said the jury about Roland Schimmelpfennig. His book “On a clear, cold January morning at the beginning of the 21st century” is also nominated. “A dance current fortunes, so austere as touching intertwined.”
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Heinz Strunk says in “The Golden glove “the story of Fritz Honka, who in the 1970s in Hamburg murdered several women. The jury verdict: “Heinz Strunk takes an artful language to tell of the lost their connection to the company’s Life woman murderer Fritz Honka bathes the bright world of the old Federal Republic in a dark light..”
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“Frohburg” is the magnum opus of Guntram Vesper, who was born in 1941 in the eponymous town near Leipzig. “A museum, an archive, a life’s work: The perceptual strong view of the poet assumes manifold targeted,” says the jury of the Book Fair. “With great sensitivity for East-West phenomena revived this opulent Roman things and events that threaten to disappear from the collective memory.”
This list surprised especially by the names that are missing on her: they had yet strong expected Abbas Khider whose new novel, which has just appeared poetically provocative refugee story ” slap “, the literary debate this spring is undoubtedly a say; as Karen Duve icy doom-dystopia “power” or Juli Zeh’s new social novel “Among people”. Instead nominated the seven-member jury in the category Fiction writers with whom they had hardly expected -. Including feature Heinz Strunk, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Nils-Momme Stockmann three playwrights, the last two put in this spring before their novel debuts
a wolf, a fox, a glove – and a woman
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Frank Heibert is nominated in the category “translation” of Richard Ford’s novel “Frank”.
Schimmelpfennig tells in “on a clear, cold January morning” the story of a wolf and his journey through Germany. Stockmann, who comes from the island of Foehr, convinced the jury with his novel “The Fox”, which is about a childhood in a North German town, which will be destroyed one day of torrential floods. Heinz Strunk, as a member of “Studio Braun” previously known for upscale nonsense, is nominated for the novel “The Golden Glove”, the story of the woman murderer Fritz Honka. On the list Guntram Vesper also available with its monumental education and development novel “Frohburg” and, as the only woman, Marion Poschmann with the poetry collection “Borrowed Landscapes”. In the category “Translation” must Frank Heibert that carried Richard Ford’s latest novel “Frank” into German, as slight favorites are, stands among the nominations nonfiction produced “The last century the horse” by Ulrich Raulff.
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