I recently mentioned that, in tidying up his affairs, German author Siegfried Lenz has established a biennial 'Siegfried-Lenz-Preis', an author prize that, at €50,000 vaults into the top tiers, money-wise, of German prizes.
As I also mentioned, I desperately hope it becomes known as the 'Siggi' .....
They've now announced who will pick up the prize this first time around, at a ceremony on 14 November (German prizes like to announce the winners way, way in advance, just in case ...) and it is ... the certainly deserving but already much awarded and hence ultra-safe (especially from a German perspective ...) Amos Oz. (See, for example, the dpa report, Amos Oz ausgezeichnet.)
Hard to say what kind of a prize this is going to turn out to be, but as to the need of yet another literary prize that selects as its first laureate Amos Oz ..... I think there might be better ways of supporting the literary world.
Of course, if they start referring to the prize as the Siggi .....
They've now announced who will pick up the prize this first time around, at a ceremony on 14 November (German prizes like to announce the winners way, way in advance, just in case ...) and it is ... the certainly deserving but already much awarded and hence ultra-safe (especially from a German perspective ...) Amos Oz. (See, for example, the dpa report, Amos Oz ausgezeichnet.)
Hard to say what kind of a prize this is going to turn out to be, but as to the need of yet another literary prize that selects as its first laureate Amos Oz ..... I think there might be better ways of supporting the literary world.
Of course, if they start referring to the prize as the Siggi .....