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Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for Katja Petrowskaja & Ernst Willner Prize for Heinz Helle

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10.07.2013

We are proud to announce that this year, at the Festival for Literature in German Language in Klagenfurt, our authors Katja Petrowskaja and Heinz Helle were rewarded for their achievements.

Katja Petrowskaja was awarded the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, receiving 25.000 Euros. Her text entitled Vielleicht Esther tells the tale of a babushka living in Nazi-occupied Kiev.

»Wonderful, vigorous, simple and lightly spun«, the jury commented.

»German contemporary literature is now richer for such a clever, flamboyant and highly independent voice« DIE ZEIT


Heinz Helle was awarded the Ernst Willner Prize for his extract from his upcoming novel Der beruhigende Klang von explodierendem Kerosin. The prize includes 5.000 Euros.

In her presentation of the winner, the literary critic and member of the jury Daniela Strigl said:
»We all know that feeling, when talk and dialogue leads to nothing more than even deeper misunderstanding. Helle subtly demonstrates what it means to grow apart. Even in the midst of national football frenzy, he, the naked man perched on a traffic light, describes the scene from above and peers over his own shoulder. The more he seeks to be original, the more of a stereotype he becomes. He gambles away his life and that of his child. Helle follows his woeful hero with humour.«

For more information on the authors and their works, please visit their respective Foreign Rights websites or contact the respective Rights Manager.


Heinz Helle was born in 1978. He studied philosophy in Munich and New York. He has worked as a copywriter for advertising agencies and is a graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. He was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2015 for his second novel, Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen. For his novel Die Überwindung der Schwerkraft he was awarded the Förderpreis zum Bremer Literaturpreis 2019 and was shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize 2018. He lives in Zurich with his wife, writer Julia Weber, and their two daughters.
Heinz Helle was born in 1978. He studied philosophy in Munich and New York. He has worked as a copywriter for advertising agencies and is a graduate...
Katja Petrowskaja was born in Kyiv in 1970. She studied at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and was also awarded research fellowships at Columbia University in New York, and Stanford in California. Katja Petrowskaja received her PhD in Moscow. Since 1999, she has lived and worked in Berlin. Her literary debut Vielleicht Esther was translated into more than 20 languages and received numerous awards.
Katja Petrowskaja was born in Kyiv in 1970. She studied at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and was also awarded research fellowships at Columbia...

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