literature
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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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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