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The Austrian author, who recently presented his new book “Eigentum” and is best known for his “Brenner” crime series, is being honored “for his always surprising and linguistically sparkling oeuvre,” as the jury’s statement states. The prize, worth 5,000 euros, will be awarded on February 23, 2024 in Munich, the Erich Kästner Society announced on Friday.
“In the brilliance and ingenuity of his language, his confident and habitual use of comedy and humor, the reflection of human fears and needs, in the close ties of his reading audience, a broad relationship to the namesake of this prize is evident,” the jury states according to the broadcast .
The previous award winners
The Erich Kästner Prize for Literature – not to be confused with the Erich Kästner Prize awarded biennially by the Dresden Press Club – has been awarded at irregular intervals since 1979 to German-speaking authors who have published outstanding literary works with contemporary criticism. Previous award winners include Loriot (1984), Robert Gernhardt (1999), Tomi Ungerer (2003) and Felicitas Hoppe (2015).
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