Dana Vowinckel and Jens Beckert Nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2024
News28.02.2024
Dana Vowinckel and Jens Beckert have been nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2024 for their books The World in a Ziplock Bag and Selling the Future, respectively. Lisa Palmes, the translator of Suhrkamp's German edition of the novel Bitternis, by Polish author Joanna Bator, has also received a nomination in the translation category.
Dana Vowinckel has bagged yet another nomination for her debut novel, which was released in autumn 2023. The jury had the following to say about her book: »A contemporary Jewish family history set between Chicago, Berlin, and Jerusalem: Dana Vowinckel tells of the desires and drudgery of puberty, of everyday life and the conflicts of a religious single father and a liberal, intellectual woman, whose mode of being a mother doesn't fit any of the typical clichés. Narrated with both emotion and clarity, the novel draws its tension from the consistency of the narrative perspectives, allowing different world views to coexist even in the most intimate circles.«
Jens Beckert has made the list for his upcoming book Selling the Future: Why the Fight against Climate Change Is in Danger of Failing in the non-fiction/essay category. »›We need to start from reality‹, writes Jens Beckert, when he looks at climate change. He analyses the situation as a sociologist and not as a scientist, while also looking in his study at how the media discusses the topic. In a coinvincing fashion, this book also teases out the economic and political entanglements, and explains why, despite all our knowledge of the catastrophe we are facing, we have thus far not been successful in tackling it. And Jens Beckert delivers some ideas on how society can get its act together«, wrote the jury.
The Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair is endowed with €60,000 in total, and has been awarded by a seven-person jury since the first Leipzig Book Fair in 2005, and recognises outstanding new releases in the categories of fiction, non-fiction/essay, and translation.
The awards ceremony will take place on 21 March 2024 at 4 p.m. at the Leipzig Book Fair.
For more information on The World in a Ziplock Bag or Selling the Future, contact the foreign rights manager for your region.
Dana Vowinckel has bagged yet another nomination for her debut novel, which was released in autumn 2023. The jury had the following to say about her book: »A contemporary Jewish family history set between Chicago, Berlin, and Jerusalem: Dana Vowinckel tells of the desires and drudgery of puberty, of everyday life and the conflicts of a religious single father and a liberal, intellectual woman, whose mode of being a mother doesn't fit any of the typical clichés. Narrated with both emotion and clarity, the novel draws its tension from the consistency of the narrative perspectives, allowing different world views to coexist even in the most intimate circles.«
Jens Beckert has made the list for his upcoming book Selling the Future: Why the Fight against Climate Change Is in Danger of Failing in the non-fiction/essay category. »›We need to start from reality‹, writes Jens Beckert, when he looks at climate change. He analyses the situation as a sociologist and not as a scientist, while also looking in his study at how the media discusses the topic. In a coinvincing fashion, this book also teases out the economic and political entanglements, and explains why, despite all our knowledge of the catastrophe we are facing, we have thus far not been successful in tackling it. And Jens Beckert delivers some ideas on how society can get its act together«, wrote the jury.
The Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair is endowed with €60,000 in total, and has been awarded by a seven-person jury since the first Leipzig Book Fair in 2005, and recognises outstanding new releases in the categories of fiction, non-fiction/essay, and translation.
The awards ceremony will take place on 21 March 2024 at 4 p.m. at the Leipzig Book Fair.
For more information on The World in a Ziplock Bag or Selling the Future, contact the foreign rights manager for your region.