Buchner Prize for Terezia Mora – news.ORF.at

The German-Hungarian writer Terezia Mora (47) has today received the Georg Büchner Prize in Darmstadt, Germany. The price of 50,000 euros is the most important literary prize in Germany.

"Drastic and delicacy combined"

The German Academy of Language and Literature honors the "eminent presence and living language art of Mora which unites idiom and everyday poetry, drasticity and tenderness". The document states: "In her novels and stories, she ruthlessly examines the loss of urban nomads and precarious lives and explores the abysses of inner and outer strangeness."

The award winning writer and translator was born in Hungary and grew up bilingual. Since 1990, she lives in Berlin. For her novel "Das Ungeheuer" – the second volume of a trilogy on the life of IT specialist Darius Kopp – she received the 2013 German Book Award.

Since 1951, the German Academy of Language and Literature awards this prize to writers who write in German. The winners are Max Frisch (1958) and Günter Grbad (1965), as well as Jürgen Becker (2014), Rainald Goetz (2015), Marcel Beyer (2016) and, last year, the poet Jan Wagner.