Ariane Koch is awarded the »aspekte« Prize for Literature 2021
News16.10.2021
For her novel The Imposition Ariane Koch has been honoured with the ZDF-»aspekte« Prize for Literature, the most important prize for debut works in Germany.
The jury states:
»Ariane Koch's debut novel The Imposition is a convincing, highly complex linguistic image: a woman struggles with an uninvited, unknown, unexplained guest and with the projection surface of herself that this confrontation presents for her. In Koch's light, precise and yet dreamlike language, scenes emerge that – as in the theatre of the absurd – seem at first to make no sense at all and then a tremendous amount of sense. Derrida, writing about hospitality, stated that absolute hospitality means opening one's home: to ›give place‹ not only to the stranger, but also to the unknown, to the other without expecting reciprocity. Koch skilfully varies this postmodern utopia of opening oneself to the unknown in her impressive literary debut.«
The ZDF-»aspekte« Prize for Literature is awarded annually and is endowed with 10.000 Euros. Previous recipients include Georg Büchner Prize winner Felicitas Hoppe and Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, as well as Suhrkamp authors Andreas Maier, Stephan Thome and Deniz Ohde.
For more information please visit the author’s Foreign Rights Website or contact the respective Rights Manager.
The jury states:
»Ariane Koch's debut novel The Imposition is a convincing, highly complex linguistic image: a woman struggles with an uninvited, unknown, unexplained guest and with the projection surface of herself that this confrontation presents for her. In Koch's light, precise and yet dreamlike language, scenes emerge that – as in the theatre of the absurd – seem at first to make no sense at all and then a tremendous amount of sense. Derrida, writing about hospitality, stated that absolute hospitality means opening one's home: to ›give place‹ not only to the stranger, but also to the unknown, to the other without expecting reciprocity. Koch skilfully varies this postmodern utopia of opening oneself to the unknown in her impressive literary debut.«
The ZDF-»aspekte« Prize for Literature is awarded annually and is endowed with 10.000 Euros. Previous recipients include Georg Büchner Prize winner Felicitas Hoppe and Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, as well as Suhrkamp authors Andreas Maier, Stephan Thome and Deniz Ohde.
For more information please visit the author’s Foreign Rights Website or contact the respective Rights Manager.