The author Esr Kinsky has won prestigious prize of Leipzig Book Fair. The jury awarded her book Hain in category of fiction. Site novel. Or prize winners are historian Karl Schlögel in Division of non-essay writing and Sabine Stöhr and Yuri Durkot in translation division.
Esr Kinsky tells in Grove. Terrain novel of three Italian travels of a I-narrator off tourist paths. Landscape meditation, childhood memories and grief come toger. The jury judged: "Silence, almost psychically precise observations, which gain ir depth entirely from sinking into surface." and furr, "What a school of perception. In stimulus reduction, every detail that is still so inconspicuous is shown with downright supersensual accuracy; The Tonlosigkeit increases to singing of things. "
One will only do justice to unspectacular melody of book and rhythmic precision of his sentences, if one reads it slowly, "with a patience that awaits nothing, and is refore rewarded with a marvel at abundance of his details," it was said in The jury's justification.
Kinsky reacted "surprised and moved"The 61-year-old Kinsky lives and works in Berlin. Her award-winning work includes translations from Polish, Russian and English as well as poetry, essays and narrative prose. She translated works by Olga Tokarczuk, Joanna Bator and Iain Sinclair. Her first novel, Summer Freshness, was released in 2009. It followed Banatsko, by river and now Grove. Kinsky said in a first reaction that she was "very surprised and moved" and is incredibly excited about award.
Kinsky sat down against also nominated novelists Isabel Fargo Cole ( Green border), Anja Kampmann (how high water rises), Georg Klein (Miakro) and Matthias shoelaces (dark numbers). Last year Natascha Wodin with her novel She came from Mariupol won fiction prize of Leipzig Book Fair.
In category of essay writing, award was given to historian Karl Schlögel for work Soviet century. Archaeology of a Lost World (Verlag C. H. Beck). "Karl Schlögel, who has spent his whole life in close contact with Russia and Soviet Union, presents here a captivating physiognomy of this derelict empire, from its gloriously crackling wrapping paper to icy hell in Siberian camps," it was said by The jury. Schlögel (born 1948) taught Eastern European history until his retirement, first at University of Konstanz, later at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt on OR. He is author of numerous books on Soviet and Eastern European history.
The prize for best translation was given to Sabine Stöhr and Yuri Durkot for transfer of novel boarding school of Serhiy Zhadan from Ukrainian (Suhrkamp). The conflict between Ukrainian government and Moscow loyal separatists in Donbass is background for Zhadans work. "The environment brutalised, but hero's perceptual apparatus gains in sharpness and accuracy. Not cheap drasticness, but dense descriptions that unfold enormously in German. The language is a protective space and a cognitive instrument in one, " jury judged. The Translator Stöhr (born 1968) and publicist and journalist Durkot (born 1965) have already carried out several works by Serhiy Zhadan into German.
The prize of Leipzig Book Fair is one of most important literary awards in Germany. It is endowed with a total of 60,000 euros. For victory re are 15,000 euros in each category, five nominees in each division receive 1,000 euros each.
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Date Of Update: 16 March 2018, 12:03
