Gisela von Wysocki receives Italo-Svevo-Preis 2022

For her œuvre, Gisela von Wysocki is awarded the Italo-Svevo-Preis 2022.

The jury states: »Her prose combines life experience and musicality with biographical exploration and rich modulation. That way, Gisela von Wysocki always succeeds in making her texts resonate. Von Wysocki observes precisely, character is expressed in the movement of a hand. Essence shines through in supposedly insignificant details. The eroticism and seductive power of thought become vivid and a narrative event. There is a great lightness in the language, without the prose losing the precision and conceptual awareness of a mind educated in sociological and aesthetic theory. Language serves cognition, it gives form to experience. It is a great pleasure to read how comedy and meaning as well as the coherence of the mental images correspond with the openness of the literary forms.«

The Italo-Svevo-Preis is awarded to German-language prose authors since 2001. It »honours and encourages a literary œuvre’s obstinacy« and is endowed with 15,000 Euros. The prize ceremony will be held on September 12 in Hamburg.
 

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