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Milena Michiko Flašar, Josef Winkler, Daniel Wisser, Heinrich Steinfest and Gerhard Jäger Chances today (5 November) The Austrian book prize is a chance.
05:55, 05 November 2018
The Austrian Chancellery and the leading badociation of the Austrian book sector have awarded the Austrian Book Prize for the third time today (5 November) at the Casino am Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna. Milena Michiko Flašar, Josef Winkler, Daniel Wisser, Heinrich Steinfest and Gerhard Jager are likely to follow last year's winner, Eva Menbade. The winner receives 20,000 euros, each additional finalist 2,500 euros.
The favorite is Josef Winkler, winner of the Büchner Prize. Carinthian, 65, president of the Senate of Austrian Art. With "let me go home, father or dead in the heart, write to me", text that was created as a theatrical text in the casino Burgtheater before the release of the book, its theme of life, the confrontation just as angry and painful with the overwhelming father and his homeland, continued virtuoso, The long-hidden fact that Odilo Globočnik, a Jewish Haitian and war criminal born in Carinthia, had been buried after his suicide on this land of the community "Sautratten ", on which the Winkler family was growing their crops, fueling a furious monologue charge. "The movements that take place in circular, piercing and deep movements are among the most powerful things that German prose can offer today," said the five-member jury (Konstanze Fliedl, Bernhard Fetz, Jens Jessen, Evelyne Polt-Heinzl and Bettina Wagner) in the shortlist screening.
The other nominated books also received excellent reviews when they were released. "The King of the Mountains" by Daniel Wisser, a novel on the theme of euthanasia, was perceived by the jury "despite all the tragedy of the subject as a reading of the most stimulating and by no means sinister". "Mr. Kato plays family" Milena Michiko Flašar, the story of a retired man who finds himself in roles abroad, congratulates the jury and others. the "ironic tone that does not fear the pathos" and the "great empathy" of the author. Gerhard Jäger's second novel "All about the night" highlights the subject of escape from all angles and is, according to the jury, "a book that will not let go before long". Heinrich Steinfest's novel about "Die Büglerin" wrote with the jurors with intelligence and elegance. "Despite all his malicious insignificance, it's finally a wise book about fate, guilt and great love."
The first price
Ljuba Arnautović ("hidden"), David Fuchs ("before the disappearance") and Marie Gamillscheg ("Alles was glänzt") are nominated for the prize simultaneously awarded 10 000 euros.
The Austrian Book Prize has been firmly in the hands of women since its introduction in 2016. The previous winners of the book prize are Friederike Mayröcker and Eva Menbade. The first prize went to Friederike Gösweiner and Nava Ebrahimi.
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