Lutz Seiler awarded Uwe Johnson Prize 2014

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20.07.2014

We are delighted to announce that Lutz Seiler will receive the Uwe Johnson Prize 2014 for his novel Kruso, due to be published in September 2014.

The prize includes a 15.000 euro grant and honours authors, »whose writings trace back to Uwe Johnson’s poetry and that reflect the German past, present and future beyond the surface of ›simple truths‹.«

The jury states: »In Kruso Lutz Seiler visualises the hopes and restrictions of a whole country by means of one singular place, Hiddensee, and within a short time frame, June until November 1989.«

For more information on Kruso and other works by Lutz Seiler please visit the author's Foreign Rights website or contact the respective Rights Manager.

Lutz Seiler

Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin and in Stockholm. He underwent training as a mason and a carpenter and completed his studies in 1990. Since 1997, he has been the literary director and custodian of the Peter Huchel Museum. He was writer-in-residence at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and at the German Academy in Rome. His many prizes include the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Bremen Prize for Literature, the Fontane Prize, the Uwe Johnson Prize, and most recently the Georg Büchner Prize.

Lutz Seiler

Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin and in Stockholm. He underwent training as a mason...

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