Lutz Seiler wins the German Book Prize 2014 for Kruso

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13.10.2014

We are excited to announce that Lutz Seiler has been awarded the German Book Prize 2014 for his novel Kruso.

In its rational the jury states: »Lutz Seiler employs lyrical, sensual language with a hint of magic to describe the summer of 1989 on the island of Hiddensee – a ›gateway to evanescence‹. [...] One can read this compelling Robinsonade involving the eponymous Kruso and the young dishwasher Edgar as an eloquent tale of both a personal and historic shipwreck – and as a poet’s coming of age novel. [...] Lutz Seiler’s first novel impresses with its thoroughly distinct poetic language, its sensual intensity and its worldliness.«

The prize includes a 25.000 Euro grant and was awarded on October 6, 2014.

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...