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The Austrian State Grand Prix 2018 goes to Florjan Lipus and therefore to a Carinthian author who writes Slovene in his native language. The highest cultural prize of the Republic, with 30 000 euros, will be awarded to Lipus on 1 October. "His literature is based on aesthetic autonomy, linguistic experience and literary innovation," said Minister of Culture Gernot Blümel (ÖVP).
His work is considered an official testimony of the quality of literature in minority languages.
"Tranquility of Mind": Reminiscences of Nazi atrocities
Florjan Lipus was born on May 4, 1937 in Lobnig / Lobnik near Eisenkappel / Zelezna Kapla. As a child, he had to watch his mother's arrest before seeing a group of Gestapo men disguised as supporters. She was murdered in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, while her father served in the Wehrmacht
Last year, Lipus published "Soul Peaceful", in which he condenses motifs from childhood , youth and war. This testimony of life is an badytical approach to growing up during the Second World War, an understanding of the remains of mother and grandmother, a late reconciliation with paternal silence and a constant reminder of Nazi atrocities [19659003From1960to1998LipusworkedasateacherandprincipalofelementaryschoolAtthesametimehewaseditor-in-chiefoftheCarinthian-Slovenianliterarymagazine"Mladje"from1960to1980andhaspublishednumerousarticlesnovelsandessaysAmongthemostfamousworksofLipusare"ThestudentTjaz""Theeliminationofmyvillage""Therefusalofmelancholy"and"heartstains"andpublishedinGermaninthenovelofSuhrkampVerlag"FlightofBostjans"
translating the 1981 "Zögling Tjaz" with Helga Mracnikar in German, was in a once delusional APA interview on Lipus: "Breast, Bostjans Flight" for me is one of the three, four books that after the Second World War in Austria "His proposal to award the Lipus the Austrian State Grand Prix, however, failed at the moment because the author does not write in German. Nachsatz: "It's a fake."
Several awards [Lipstick] However, Lipus is still rewarded: For "the flight of Bostjan", Lipus was awarded in 2004 by the France Preseren Prize and 2011 by the Petrarca Prize. In 2005 he received the Austrian Literature Prize, 2013 the Franz Nabl Prize of the city of Graz, with 14,500 euros.
The Austrian Senate Art argues in its State Prize Reasoning that even in the "Töz tōaz" its "entire narrative opus". thematic "Lipus deals in his literature with the resistance to National Socialism, the expulsion and murder of the Slovenes of Carinthia, the contempt of the Slovenian minority by the majority population, but also the rescue of a world of words and Slovene expressions identity. «
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