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Bayer, Breznik, Fels, Stauffer, Stavaric, Travnicek and Trojanow are also on the long list. The award will be presented on November 9.
Six writers and four men have a chance
Austrian Book Prize 2020. Newcomer Helena Adler (“Die
Infanta takes her head to the left “) is also in the
announced today long list as Monika Helfer with her batch
praised novel “Die Bagage”, Xaver Bayer with his witty
“Stories with Marianne” or the German Ludwig who lives in Vienna
Rock (“moonquake”).
The shortlist of five titles will be announced on
October 8th. The three books shortlisted for the debut award
have already been published by the jury today: It is
are Leander Fischer’s monumental fly fishing novel “Die
Forelle “,” Above Everything and Nothing “by Gunther Neumann and Mercedes
Spannagel’s debut “Das Palais” will premiere next week
it must burn. “
Prize endowed with 20,000 euros
While Adler, who was born in Salzburg in 1983, also acted in the
Longlist is synonymous with the German Book Prize, the others are for that
Austrians nominated at German counterpart price –
Bachmann Award winner Birgit Birnbacher (“Me by my side”),
Valerie Fritsch (“Johnson & Johnson Heart Valves”), Robert
Seethaler (“The Last Move”) and newcomer Stephan Roiss
(“Triceratops”) – not for the Austrian Book Prize
considered.
The winning freestyle will be held the night of November 9 as part of the “Buch
Vienna. “The Austrian Book Prize, awarded for the fifth time
it is endowed with 20,000 euros, the debut prize with 10,000 euros; he
The finalists who have not had the opportunity will receive 2,500 euros each.
The jury – literary critics Sebastian Fasthuber and Nicole
Henneberg, the bookseller Klaus Seufer-Wasserthal and
Literary scholar Ulrike Tanzer – viewed a total of 117
works of fiction, essays, lyrical and dramatic that
published between October 9, 2019 and October 8, 2020
or will appear. The Austrian Book Prize is organized by the Ministry of Culture, the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade and the Vienna Chamber of Labor. Last year the award went to Norbert Gstrein for his novel “When I Was Young”, the debut award to Angela Lehner for “Our Father.”
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