Chilean poet and narrator Enrique Iciness will obtain this 12 months the Anna Seghers Literature Award, in conjunction with German author Marlen Hobrack.
Iciness, born in Santiago, Chile in 1982, is, consistent with the member of the Victoria Torres jury, “one of the vital distinguished Latin American authors of his era.”
With ‘On us we can close up’ Iciness wrote a unique consistent with the spirit of ‘Transit’ and ‘The 7th Pass’, two of Anna Seghers’s major works (1900-1993), which supplies the identify to the award.
‘About us we can close up’ addresses the uprooting and the affection tale of the writer’s polish grandmother who fled from nationalism to Latin The usa, on a transatlantic go back and forth very similar to the only he needed to adopt Anna Sehgers on the time, and which was once described as “an overflowing novel” in a evaluate of The counter.
Marlen Hobrack, in the meantime, was once born in 1986 in Bautzen (east of Germany) and his paintings addresses classism in a actually authentic method, consistent with the jury Jörg-Philipp Thomsa.
The award shall be brought to the 2 authors on June 7 on the Academy of Science and Literature of Mainz.
Every of the 2 winners will obtain a steel award of 12,500 euros.
The prize is delivered by means of the Anna Seghers Basis to Latin American authors and the arena of German language to contribute via literature to create a extra simply society.
Once a year the Basis commissions personalities of literary existence to the selection of the winners.
Victoria Torres is a professor of Latin American literature on the College of Colonia.
Certainly one of his analysis problems is the literary illustration of wars, particularly the Falklands Struggle.
He has additionally investigated girls’s literature and literary members of the family between Latin American and Eu writers.
Anna Seghers debuted as a author in 1928 along with her first novel ‘The riot of the fishermen of Santa Barbara’, for which she gained the Heinrich Von Kleist award. The similar 12 months he entered the German Communist Birthday party (DKP).
After the coming of the Nazis in 1933, Seghers may flee to Switzerland to then settle in France.
His books have been prohibited in Germany and brought to the flames within the burning of books arranged by means of the Nazis.
After the start of Global Struggle II and the invasion of France by means of the Nazis fled from Paris to the south of France after which, because of the assistance of Mexican consul Gilberto Bosques, he controlled to go away Europe.
Seghers lived in Mexico between 1941 and 1947, when he returned to Germany. In 1949 he settled within the extinct RDA. In his Mexican exile he printed ‘The 7th Pass’ in German within the Exil publishing space, a unique that was once taken to the cinema in 1944 by means of Fred Zinnemann and was once the root of Seghers’s world popularity.
In 1947 he gained the Georg Büchner award, crucial award given to a German writer for all the paintings.
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