Literature: Graphic novel nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize

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Graphic novel nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize

It’s not just classic books that are nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair prize this year. photo

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Graphic novels, audio books and translated poems – this year there is a wide variety of formats in the nominations for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.

For the This year, for the first time in the fiction category, a graphic novel has been nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. “Comrade Cuckoo” by Anke Feuchtenberger is a fantastic journey to the German East, said the jury when the nominations were announced. In addition, Wolf Haas with “Eigentum”, Inga Machel with “Auf den Gleisen”, Barbi Markovic with “Minihorror” and Dana Vowinckel with “Gewasser im Ziplock” were nominated for the fiction prize.

The award will be presented on the first day of the Leipzig Book Fair on March 21st. It is endowed with a total of 60,000 euros and is awarded in the three categories fiction, non-fiction/essay and translation. This year, 177 publishers submitted 486 works.

An audio book is also nominated

In the non-fiction/essay category, the jury chaired by literary critic Insa Wilke also nominated an audio book for the first time. “Voices of the Century 1945-2000” brings together original recordings from German history. Also selected were Christina Morina (“A thousand departures. The Germans and their democracy since the 1980s”), Tom Holert (“approx. 1972″ Violence – Environment – Identity – Method”), Jens Beckert (“Sold Future. Why the fight against climate change threatens to fail”) and Christina Clemm (“Against misogyny”).

In the translation section, Ki-Hyang Lee (“The Curse of the Rabbit”), Klaus Detlef Olof (“18 Kilometers to Ljubljana”), Lisa Palmes (“Bitternis”), Jennie Seitz (“Take my pain. Stories from the War”) and Ron Winkler (“Beginning with San Francisco. Poems”) were selected.

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