German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair
Time:2024-05-22 11:30:12 Source:healthViews(143)
LONDON (AP) — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence.
Erpenbeck said she hoped the book would help readers learn there was more to life in the now-vanished Communist country than depicted in “The Lives of Others,” the Academy Award-winning 2006 film about pervasive state surveillance in the 1980s.
“The only thing that everybody knows is that they had a wall, they were terrorizing everyone with the Stasi, and that’s it,” she said. “That is not all there is.”
“Kairos” traces an affair from utopian beginning to bitter end, and draws parallels between personal lives and the life of the state.
The book beat five other finalists, chosen from 149 submitted novels, for the prize, which recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. The 50,000 pounds ($64,000) in prize money is divided between author and translator.
Previous:Clark signs deal with Wilson Sporting Goods for signature line
Next:Vatican makes fresh overture to China, reaffirms that Catholic Church is no threat to sovereignty
You may also like
- Caitlin Clark returns for 2nd half against Sun after apparent left leg injury in 1st half
- Check out these water
- Red lanterns set for Chinese Lunar New Year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Nuclear power plant operator sanguine on renewable energy
- Mississippi woman pleads guilty to stealing government funds
- Shanghai to Athens airline route set to launch in April
- Chinese traditional lion dance taught at primary school in Jiangxi
- Homegrown chatbot throws hat in AI ring
- Analysis: Bryson DeChambeau doesn't win the PGA trophy, but he does win the crowd