The Ukrainian Tanja Malyarchuk wins the Bachmann Prize

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K lagenfurt (dpa) – Writer Tanja Maljartschuk received the 42nd Ingeborg Bachmann Award. The author, originally from Ukraine and residing in Vienna, received Sunday in Klagenfurt the honor of 25,000 euros for his text "Frogs in the Sea".

Maljartschuk (born 1983) discusses the lack of interest of the younger generation and the problems of a socially inegalitarian and xenophobic society. The award is considered one of the most prestigious literary awards in the German-speaking world.

Maljarchuk won the second round of the seven-member jury with four votes. As a laudator called the Viennese literary editor Stefan Gmünder, who had invited the author to Klagenfurt, the text as a "stroke of luck". Malyarchuk studied Ukrainian philology and worked for several years as a television journalist in Kiev. Since 2011, she lives in Austria. She has only been writing in German since 2014. She is "shocked", she said in an interview after the awards ceremony. "It's amazing, I do not have words."

German cabaret writer and entertainer Bov Bjerg won the Deutschlandfunk Award, worth € 12,500 The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize is awarded since 1977 to the memory of the author Born in Klagenfurt Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) .Last year, the Austrian author Ferdinand Schmalz received it

Since Thursday, 14 authors are fighting for their coveted prize with their texts in Klagenfurt.The authors have addressed various topics such as the treatment of the past, the relationship between Africa and Europe or of Particular life situations such as love and stressful fate.The Swiss Martina Clavadetscher had in her contribution a 92-year-old man dying to take a look at his entire life. From Germany, nine authors participated in the competition

The first day, the two Germans Stephan Lohse e t Joshua Gross have distinguished themselves as favorites. Lohse's text is very well said, the characters "gorgeous," said juror Insa Wilke. Lohse has had a history of pbadage into adulthood in which a white teenager takes on the identity of a black man. Meanwhile, Gross has presented a text on a violent love story that takes its toll on an American basketball game. For the jury, the text was full of "linguistic fun" and "groove".

Bov Bjerg, probably the best-known participant this year, also received much praise. His text, which he read Friday, deals with the father-son relationship and relies on clear language and concrete situations. The opening address of the writer Feridun Zaimoglu, who presented a radical vision of society and called for greater brotherhood, was much more political than the texts of the fourteen authors. "The world is bad because men can not believe without violence," said Zaimoglu, who denounced unworthy behavior towards the poor, women and foreigners. He also found clear words against the rights: "There are no honest right intellectuals. There is no fair and honest writer."

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