This jury decision was announced on Friday. Most recently, her tetralogy of the seasons was highly praised, which has also been available in German translation since last year (“Summer”). The prize is endowed with 25,000 euros and will be awarded at a ceremony during the Salzburg Festival.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She has published several novels and collections of short stories and received numerous awards. Her novel Being Both won the 2014 Costa Novel Award, the Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award, the Goldsmiths Prize and the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. The author was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for the fourth time in 2017 with “Herbst”. A “companion piece” is to be released in April as a follow-up to the season cycle.
The Austrian State Prize for European Literature has been awarded since 1965 for the literary oeuvre of a European author that has received particular international attention. Most recently, the prize went to Mircea Cartarescu, Andrzej Stasiuk, Karl Ove Knausgård, Zadie Smith, Michel Houellebecq, Drago Jancar and László Krasznahorkai
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