The Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria (as the former Ministry of Culture is now apparently organized) announced their annual literary prizes yesterday, including the big one, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature -- probably the most prestigious European-author prize going (check out the previous winners) -- and this year it goes to Nostalgia-author Mircea Cărtărescu (who has been picking up the prizes right and left recently -- most recently the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding).
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