Robert Menasse Turns 70 on 21 June 2024

On 21 June 2024, Suhrkamp author Robert Menasse celebrates his 70th birthday. The award-winning Austrian novelist and essayist is known for the way that he deftly deals with historical and political themes in his novels – for example in The Capital and Enlargement, which are set among the backroom intrigues of the EU – and for his keen insights into contemporary politics in his non-fiction writing – as in his most recent work, The World of Tomorrow. With the ongoing rise of the AfD in Germany, Marine Le Pen in France and Giorgia Meloni in Italy, the course of European politics is currently on a knife-edge. It seems that Menasse’s plea for a post-national European politics has not yet been heard widely enough.

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We wish the author many happy returns.