Unless it’s about the Georg Büchner Prize or the German Book Prize, literary prizes are usually only of interest to the people who are present in the hall during the award ceremony. So when the “Rheingau Literature Prize” or the “LiBeraturpreis”, endowed with 111 bottles of Riesling, is awarded, the general public generally remains unaffected.
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