Another day, another German-language author (as opposed to book) prize: they've now announced (though not yet at any of the officially associated sites, last I checked ...) that Juli Zeh will receive this year's Thomas-Mann-Preis (€25,000, the ceremony to be held 8 December); see, for example, the (German) report at boersenblatt.
Another prize with a fine winners' roll -- Christa Wolf, Peter Handke, Günter Grass, Elias Canetti, Wolfgang Koeppen, Heimito von Doderer, Martin Kessel, and Alfred Döblin, to name just a few of the prominent honored authors.
Zeh is actually fairly well and regularly translated into English, with another work (Decompression) due out next spring; meanwhile consider, for example, her In Free Fall; get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Another prize with a fine winners' roll -- Christa Wolf, Peter Handke, Günter Grass, Elias Canetti, Wolfgang Koeppen, Heimito von Doderer, Martin Kessel, and Alfred Döblin, to name just a few of the prominent honored authors.
Zeh is actually fairly well and regularly translated into English, with another work (Decompression) due out next spring; meanwhile consider, for example, her In Free Fall; get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.