They announced who would be getting these a while back, but today is when they hold the official ceremony handing out the Goethe Medals 2013.
The idea is to:
The idea is to:
honour figures who have performed outstanding service for the German language and international cultural relations.Winners are: S. Mahmoud Hosseini Zad, as: "Due to his efforts in particular, authors such as Judith Hermann, lngo Schulze, Uwe Timm, Peter Stamm and Julia Franck are accessible to Iranian readers"; Seagull Books founder and managing director Naveen Kishore, and Zone Defence (etc.) author Petros Markaris -- a most worthy trio.