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She’s been writing for 50 years, she writes every day, sometimes she’s downcast that success doesn’t materialize, but this year, Monika Helfer from Vorarlberg landed her first bestseller, “Die Bagage.” The novel is also a rare essence: genealogy in only 150 pages, so many lives and deaths, few can achieve it … But on Monday Xaver Bayer received the Austrian Book Prize for “Stories with Marianne” from the Salzburg Jung und Jung Verlag.
A surprise.
Bayer – pictured above – is known for the fact that you can find him writing at gas stations, Tschocherln, canteens and shopping centers. Can’t write at home.
The jury was impressed that it all begins harmlessly with the 43-year-old Viennese. The first-person narrator brings Marianne Sirius-Camembert for his girlfriend and then takes the elevator to her on the eleventh floor, but the elevator continues, 50th floor, 98th floor …
It’s like this 20 times, 20 stories that always start over. From the jury’s statement: “Modern literary is invoked in these stories and confidently used in different genres, from horror to fantasy.”
The award is endowed with 20,000 euros. Leander Fischer won the award for best debut (and therefore 10,000 euros) for “Die Forelle” by the German Wallstein Verlag.
According to the jury, the 28-year-old Upper Austrian novel is “not just a literary delicacy for art-loving fly fishermen. It can also be read as a novel against the country, with beer haze and dying forests. “
Mainly, the baits are tied in almost 800 pages, so the wings of the supposed flies must be formed from blonde hair.
