Maria Stepanova and Judith Schalansky longlisted for the 2021 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

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29.04.2021

We are delighted to announce that Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory and Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses are on the longlist for the 2021 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.

The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature is awarded every year to a work of world literature: novels, stories, novellas, literary reportages, plays, biographies, autobiographies and essays are all considered. »An original feature of the Prize is its multicultural nature. It is open to authors from the world over and is intended to contribute to their international recognition. The Prize will be awarded for works of fiction or non-fiction, irrespective of the language in which it is written.« (Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature)

Previous leaureates incluce György Dragomán, Serhiy Zhadan, Olga Tokarczuk and Mia Couto.

For more information please visit the authors' Foreign Rights Websites or contact the respective Rights Manager.

Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. She has been a formative figure in Moscow’s cosmopolitan literary scenefor a good twenty years. Following the success of her first prose work Памяти памяти, she is now internationally regarded as one of Europe's most important intellectual voices.

Suhrkamp represents world rights to Maria Stepanova’s entire oeuvre.

Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow in 1972, is a poet, essayist and journalist. Her works have received numerous international prizes. She has been a...

Judith Schalansky

Judith Schalansky, born in Greifswald in 1980, lives in Berlin where she works as a writer, editor and book designer. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has won several prizes. Verzeichnis einiger Verluste received the Premio Strega Internazionale 2020 and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the Europese Literatuurprijs 2021.

Judith Schalansky

Judith Schalansky, born in Greifswald in 1980, lives in Berlin where she works as a writer, editor and book designer. Her work has been translated...

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