Esther Kinsky nominated for Premio Strega Europeo 2023

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23.04.2023

Beitrag zu Esther Kinsky nominated for Premio Strega Europeo 2023

We are delighted to announce that Esther Kinsky’s novel Rombo is nominated for the tenth Premio Strega Europeo.

With the aim to spread the knowledge of the most original and profound voices of contemporary European fiction, the Premio Strega Europeo is awarded annually for a single work of fiction, translated into Italian. This year's winner will be announced on May 21.

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Esther Kinsky

Esther Kinsky was born in Engelskirchen in 1956. Her oeuvre, which includes poetry, fiction, essays and translations from the Polish, Russian, and English, has been awarded numerous prestigious awars, including Kleist Prize in 2022. Kinsky’s novel Grove won the Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2018 and the Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis 2018, was shortlisted for the Europese Literatuurprijs 2021, longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021, and the English translation by Caroline Schmidt was nominated for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. An unpublished and anonymously entered extract from her novel Rombo was awarded the newly founded W.-G.-Sebald-Literaturpreis in 2020.

Esther Kinsky

Esther Kinsky was born in Engelskirchen in 1956. Her oeuvre, which includes poetry, fiction, essays and translations from the Polish, Russian, and...

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