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Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German author to win the International Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary award. "I'm really surprised," she said as she collected the prize on Tuesday evening in London, adding that she had not even prepared a speech. The 57-year-old from East Berlin won the award for her novel "Kairos," which tells the love story between a student and an older author in 1980s East Germany. Erpenbeck and her translator Michael Hofmann will split the £50,000 ($63,600) prize. She is widely recognized as one of the most important stars of German literature, and has ...
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Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German author to win the International Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary award. "I'm really surprised," she said as she collected the prize on Tuesday evening in London, adding that she had not even prepared a speech. The 57-year-old from East Berlin won the award for her novel "Kairos," which tells the love story between a student and an older author in 1980s East Germany. Erpenbeck and her translator Michael Hofmann will split the £50,000 ($63,600) prize. She is widely recognized as one of the most important stars of German literature, and has ...
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Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German author to win the International Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary award. "I'm really surprised," she said as she collected the prize on Tuesday evening in London, adding that she had not even prepared a speech. The 57-year-old from East Berlin won the award for her novel "Kairos," which tells the love story between a student and an older author in 1980s East Germany. Erpenbeck and her translator Michael Hofmann will split the £50,000 ($63,600) prize. She is widely recognized as one of the most important stars of German literature, and has ...
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The winner of the international Booker prize is 'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann. Epenbeck is the first German writer to win the award. A tumultuous love story told to the backdrop of 1986 Berlin, it's about a young woman that meets an older, married man on a bus. They begin an intense and passionate affair - until she sleeps with someone else for a night, resulting in emotional fissures that echo the collapse of East Germany. Erpenbeck described it as: ‘A private story of a big love and its decay, but it’s also a story of the dissolution of a whole politi...
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Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the photograph covers. All of these are trying to communicate something to you. It’s the publishers' first opportunity to impress upon readers information about genre, themes, similar books, and even the reader’s own age and gender. A good cover can help a book reach its intended audience, while a bad cover might be the reason a new author never gets the opportunity to publish a follow-up. Cannes Film Fest...
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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's memoirs, titled "Freedom. Memories 1954 - 2021," are to be published in late November, three years after the end of her 16-year tenure, her publisher announced on Monday. Merkel, who led the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), weathered a number of crises during her time in office, including Europe's high influx of migrants in 2015 and the Covid-19 pandemic. The former chancellor co-wrote the book with her long-time political advisor, Beate Baumann. According to publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, the book will look back on Merkel's life in two G...
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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's memoirs, titled "Freedom. Memories 1954 - 2021," are to be published in late November, three years after the end of her 16-year tenure, her publisher announced on Monday. Merkel, who led the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), weathered a number of crises during her time in office, including Europe's high influx of migrants in 2015 and the Covid-19 pandemic. The former chancellor co-wrote the book with her long-time political advisor, Beate Baumann. According to publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, the book will look back on Merkel's life in two G...
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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel's memoirs, titled "Freedom. Memories 1954 - 2021," are to be published in late November, three years after the end of her 16-year tenure, her publisher announced on Monday. Merkel, who led the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), weathered a number of crises during her time in office, including Europe's high influx of migrants in 2015 and the Covid-19 pandemic. The former chancellor co-wrote the book with her long-time political advisor, Beate Baumann. According to publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, the book will look back on Merkel's life in two G...
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Several stories tackling race, slavery and the US Civil War, both real and invented, were among the winners this year for the Pulitzer Prizes, the US-based awards that honour the best in journalism and the arts. Here is a breakdown of the laureates, in eight categories covering the arts – which focus on books, theatre and music. Fiction - “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne PhillipsSet in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War, the author’s third instalment in a trilogy about different wars, follows a 12-year-old girl and her mother, who was abused by a Confed...
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New York (AFP) - The wife of US writer Paul Auster, who died due to lung cancer complications, said Thursday that her family was "robbed" of "dignity" after a friend quickly confirmed his death to media outlets. The New York Times, citing a friend of the couple, published a story of Auster's passing hours after his death on Tuesday, with other outlets following suit with similar reports. "I was naive, but I had imagined that I would be the person to announce the death of my husband," Siri Hustvedt, an esteemed novelist, wrote on Instagram. "He died with us, his family, around him on April 30,...
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