Georg Büchner Prize 2023: Writer Lutz Seiler receives award

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Writer Lutz Seiler receives Georg Büchner Prize 2023

Writer Lutz Seiler is known for poems and books like “Kruso”

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The jury of the German Academy for Language and Poetry decided that Lutz Seiler is the new winner of the Georg Büchner Prize. In doing so, he follows personalities such as Max Frisch, Heinrich Böll and, most recently, Emine Sevgi Özdamar.

The writer Lutz Seiler will receive the Georg Büchner Prize 2023. This was announced by the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt on Tuesday. “In Lutz Seiler, the German Academy for Language and Poetry honors an author who began with sonorous volumes of poetry, from there he found storytelling, but always remains a clear and enigmatic, darkly glowing poet, most recently with ‘schrift für blinde riesen'”, was the reason given by the jury. As a novelist and as a poet, Seiler has found his own unmistakable voice, melancholic, urgent, sincere, full of wonderful echoes from a long literary tradition.

Seiler has already received several prizes, including the German Book Prize

The prize, which is worth 50,000 euros, is to be presented on November 4th at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. It is one of the most important literary awards in the German-speaking world. In 2014, Seiler was awarded the German Book Prize for his debut novel “Kruso”. In 2020 he received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his novel “Stern 111”. As a Büchner Prize winner, Seiler succeeds the writer, actress and theater director Emine Sevgi Özdamar.

Since 1951, the Academy has awarded the prize to writers who write in German. According to the statute, the award winners must “stand out in a special way through their works and creations” and “have made a significant contribution to the shaping of current German cultural life”. The prize is financed by the federal government, the state of Hesse and the city of Darmstadt.

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The winners include Max Frisch (1958), Günter Grass (1965) and Heinrich Böll (1967) and most recently Rainald Goetz, Marcel Beyer, Jan Wagner, Terézia Mora, Lukas Bärfuss, Elke Erb and Clemens J. Setz. It is named after the dramatist and revolutionary Georg Büchner (“Woyzeck”). He was born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1813 and died in Zurich in 1837.

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