Saying Reality as Though It Wasn't Real Anyway or The Angels' Tantrums
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After Josef Winkler received the Georg Büchner Prize in Darmstadt on 1 November 2008, he gave a speech that forms the basis of this book. It answers a few questions: Josef Winkler, who is he? Where is he from? What has shaped him? How did he become a writer? Why has he recently stopped feeling ashamed when he doesn’t think about suicide every day?
Josef Winkler, who grew up on a farm in a small Catholic village in Carinthia, where there were no books...
After Josef Winkler received the Georg Büchner Prize in Darmstadt on 1 November 2008, he gave a speech that forms the basis of this book. It answers a few questions: Josef Winkler, who is he? Where is he from? What has shaped him? How did he become a writer? Why has he recently stopped feeling ashamed when he doesn’t think about suicide every day?
Josef Winkler, who grew up on a farm in a small Catholic village in Carinthia, where there were no books – apart from the old worn black prayer books engraved with a golden cross, deeply anchored in the souls of children, touchable and tangible with fingertips – not even the Bible, tells of his early longing for language and images. With stolen money he bought books by Camus, Hemingway, Sartre, Peter Weiss and Jean Genet. He read these books as if he had written them himself, and no sooner had he taken off his altar boy coat than he said to himself, »One day I’ll write a book!«
Digressing and digressing, Winkler sketches a self-portrait – which also includes two of his patron saints, the painter Chaim Soutine and the writer and thief Jean Genet.
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Josef Winkler Receives the Austrian Franz Kafka Prize 2024
The Austrian author has received the Franz Kafka Prize 2024 in recognition of his oeuvre.DISCOVER
Josef Winkler Receives the Austrian Franz Kafka Prize 2024
The Austrian author has received the Franz Kafka Prize 2024 in recognition of his oeuvre.Persons
Josef Winkler
Born in Austria in 1953 and an author since 1982, Josef Winkler lives in Klagenfurt. He has received numerous prizes for his work, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2008, the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2001, and most recently, the 2024 Austrian Franz Kafka Prize.
Born in Austria in 1953 and an author since 1982, Josef Winkler lives in Klagenfurt. He has received numerous prizes for his work, including the...
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