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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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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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Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Condé died in hospital in the south of France at the age of 90 early on Tuesday, Agence France Presse, reported citing her husband. Condé, whose work dealt critically with racism and the lot of black people in the Caribbean, received numerous awards for her work. They included a prize awarded in Sweden in 2018 as an alternative to the Nobel Literature Prize. Condé's novels include "I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem" (1986), which tells of an enslaved daughter. Others are: "Tree of Life" (1987), "Windward Heights" (1995) and "Victoire" (2006). Her "The Gospel Accordi...
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