Summit victory for "the queen of the mountains"

Summit victory for "the queen of the mountains"

Daniel Wisser wins the Austrian Book Prize for his touching and intelligent novel.

Minister of Culture Gernot Blümel congratulates Daniel Wisser, winner of the book prize Image: NEW APA / HERBERT MANUFACTURER

Daniel Wisser has a race. He had already dispelled the financial worries last year. His fulminating general knowledge was rewarded by 300,000 euros at the Millionenshow of the ORF. Yesterday, 47-year-old Carinthian was honored for his real talent: the five-member jury awarded his grandiose novel "The Queen of the Mountains" with the Austrian Book Prize (€ 20,000) to a patient with Multiple sclerosis given to the wheelchair and nursing staff, In addition, on November 22, in Linz, the Upper Austrian Medical Association in Linz will award the Johann Beer literary prize (€ 7,000) to Wisser (OÖN report). ).

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Wisser not only writes, he is also a musician (first local Viennese organ orchestra) and performer. For his novelist Robert Turin, the atrocious disease is the eponymous "queen of the mountains". Wisser paves the daily life of Turin with a black humor and a deep nonsense. He is a grumpy and intelligent man who does not want to bear his misery anymore. His thoughts of self-expression thus revolve around his existence. Turin's desire to come out of life becomes plausible, page by page. The man has enough sentences from his wife Irene, from the head nurse or the pastor. Not only does Wisser comment on Turin's fate in interior monologues, but the rest of the novel's staff leave the reins to disclose his thoughts about the patient. This technique gives the book a wonderful change of perspective, the abolition of politically correct and differentiated as well as entertaining reflections of a destiny that can not be reconciled with comfort. Wisser is the third winner of the widely deserved Austrian book prize. In recent years, the prize has been awarded to Friedericke Mayröcker (2016) and Eva Menbade (2017).

It should not be noted either that the approval of the prize of the best first novel of the year for Marie Gamillscheg. The Grazer, which was so much applauded by the German feature film section, was awarded 10,000 euros for its group "Alles was glänzt". The 26-year election that Berliner forges in an unnamed place, which led the steel and mining crisis into a lack of prospects, a somewhat too artistic artistic framework for balance unstable of man and nature, without giving rise to relevance. For the author of Linz, David Fuchs and his brilliant debut "Before disappearing", there remains 2,500 euros as consolation for the nomination.

The excellent books

Austrian book price:

How to approach the subject of euthanasia? Exactly like Daniel Wisser in this text about the hereditary heroes of multiple sclerosis.

Daniel Wisser: "Queen of mountains", young and young, pages, 24. Euro.

Debut Price:

A trip to an endangered world. About a community of destiny in the shadow of a mountain in which nothing is undermined.

Marie Gamillscheg: "All that glitters", Luchterhand, 224 pages, 18,50 euros.

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