Anna Kim and Esther Kinsky longlisted for the German Book Prize 2022
News22.08.2022
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Anna Kim and Esther Kinsky have been nominated for the German Book Prize 2022 with their novels Story of a Child and Rombo.
The jury spokesperson Miriam Zeh states: »The great questions of our time rumble in contemporary German-language literature: questions about origins and identity, about the forms and future of our coexistence. They can unfold in the German or Austrian provinces just as much as in Kabul or Pyongyang, in an approaching dystopia or the real-historic pre-unification era of East Berlin. From over 200 titles and more submissions than ever before, we have selected epic narratives, poetic cascades of language creation as well as formal experiments that break with the classical and realistic forms of the novel. The selection on our longlist follows various criteria, just as the jury brings together perspectives from literary mediation and criticism. Nominated for the German Book Prize 2022 are established authors as well as a multitude of lesser-known and younger voices. And if we can hereby bring such diverse novels closer to a curious readership, we are all the more pleased.«
The German Book Prize is awarded just before the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair to the German-language "Novel of the Year". The Prize is intended to draw attention beyond national borders to authors writing in German, to reading and to the keynote medium of the book. The shortlist will be announced on September 20th, the award ceremony will take place on October 17th. It is endowed with a total of 37,500 Euros. The winner receives 25,000 Euros, the other five shortlisted authors receive 2,500 Euros each.
The jury spokesperson Miriam Zeh states: »The great questions of our time rumble in contemporary German-language literature: questions about origins and identity, about the forms and future of our coexistence. They can unfold in the German or Austrian provinces just as much as in Kabul or Pyongyang, in an approaching dystopia or the real-historic pre-unification era of East Berlin. From over 200 titles and more submissions than ever before, we have selected epic narratives, poetic cascades of language creation as well as formal experiments that break with the classical and realistic forms of the novel. The selection on our longlist follows various criteria, just as the jury brings together perspectives from literary mediation and criticism. Nominated for the German Book Prize 2022 are established authors as well as a multitude of lesser-known and younger voices. And if we can hereby bring such diverse novels closer to a curious readership, we are all the more pleased.«
The German Book Prize is awarded just before the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair to the German-language "Novel of the Year". The Prize is intended to draw attention beyond national borders to authors writing in German, to reading and to the keynote medium of the book. The shortlist will be announced on September 20th, the award ceremony will take place on October 17th. It is endowed with a total of 37,500 Euros. The winner receives 25,000 Euros, the other five shortlisted authors receive 2,500 Euros each.