Bayer, Breznik, Fels, Stauffer, Stavaric, Travnicek and Trojanow are also on the longlist. The prize will be awarded on November 9th.
Six female and four male authors have chances
the Austrian Book Prize 2020. The newcomer Helena Adler (“Die
Infanta wears her head on the left “) is also on the
announced today longlist like Monika Helfer with her lot
praised novel “Die Bagage”, Xaver Bayer with his witty
“Stories with Marianne” or the German Ludwig who lives in Vienna
Rock (“moonquake”).
The shortlist comprising five titles will be announced on
8th October. The three books that were shortlisted for the debut award
have already been published by the jury today: Es
are Leander Fischer’s monumental fly fishing novel “Die
Forelle “, Gunther Neumann’s” Above Everything and Nothing “and Mercedes
Spannagel’s debut “Das Palais” will be released next week
must burn “.
Prize endowed with 20,000 euros
While Adler, who was born in Salzburg in 1983, also performed on the
Longlist stands for the German Book Prize, the others are for that
German price counterpart nominated Austrians –
Bachmann Prize winner Birgit Birnbacher (“I by my side”),
Valerie Fritsch (“Johnson & Johnson Heart Valves”), Robert
Seethaler (“The Last Movement”) and debutant Stephan Roiss
(“Triceratops”) – not for the Austrian Book Prize
considered.
The winning freestyle will take place on the evening of November 9th as part of the “Buch
Vienna “. The Austrian Book Prize, awarded for the fifth time
is endowed with 20,000 euros, the debut prize with 10,000 euros; the
Finalists who did not get a chance will each receive 2,500 euros.
The jury – the literary critics Sebastian Fasthuber and Nicole
Henneberg, bookseller Klaus Seufer-Wasserthal and
Literary scholar Ulrike Tanzer – viewed a total of 117
works of fiction, essay, lyric and dramatic works that
published between October 9, 2019 and October 8, 2020
or will appear. The Austrian Book Prize is organized by the Ministry of Culture, the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade and the Vienna Chamber of Labor. Last year the award went to Norbert Gstrein for his novel “When I was young”, the debut price to Angela Lehner for “Our Father”.
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