Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Heike Geißler and Juliane Rebentisch shortlisted for the Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2022
News16.02.2022
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The nominees for this year's Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2022 have been announced. We are pleased that the shortlist includes Suhrkamp authors Emine Sevgi Özdamar with A Space Bounded by Shadows and Heike Geißler with The Week in the fiction category and Juliane Rebentisch with The Plurality Dispute in the non-fiction category.
Furthermore, Suhrkamp is proud to be the German publisher of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's Mijn lieve gunsteling (Atlas | Contact), whose translation by Helga van Beuningen is nominated in the translation category.
Jury chair Insa Wilke said about this year's shortlist: »It is their extraordinary linguistic artistry that distinguishes the nominated literary works and that enables us to engage with the themes they present in the first place.«
About A Space Bounded by Shadows the jury states: »Emine Sevgi Özdamar spans a wide arc from the Ottoman Empire to the German and Parisian theatre scenes and the present. Her novel condenses the experiences of a European border crosser into a poetic and formal-aesthetic space of memory.«
The jury praises not only Heike Geißler's engagement with current political and social motifs but also her delivery, saying that »it is fortunate when political literature possesses that much wit.«
According to the jury, Juliane Rebentisch »explores with a profound knowledge of philosophy and yet in an accessible and rhetorically outstanding manner a concept that determines today's social debates – plurality – in a critical examination of Hannah Arendt's work.«
The prize, endowed with 60,000 Euros in total, has been awarded since the inaugural Leipzig Book Fair in 2005 and honours outstanding new publications in the categories fiction, non-fiction and translation. This year’s prize giving will be held on 17 March.
For more information please visit the authors' Foreign Rights Websites or contact the respective Rights Manager.
Furthermore, Suhrkamp is proud to be the German publisher of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's Mijn lieve gunsteling (Atlas | Contact), whose translation by Helga van Beuningen is nominated in the translation category.
Jury chair Insa Wilke said about this year's shortlist: »It is their extraordinary linguistic artistry that distinguishes the nominated literary works and that enables us to engage with the themes they present in the first place.«
About A Space Bounded by Shadows the jury states: »Emine Sevgi Özdamar spans a wide arc from the Ottoman Empire to the German and Parisian theatre scenes and the present. Her novel condenses the experiences of a European border crosser into a poetic and formal-aesthetic space of memory.«
The jury praises not only Heike Geißler's engagement with current political and social motifs but also her delivery, saying that »it is fortunate when political literature possesses that much wit.«
According to the jury, Juliane Rebentisch »explores with a profound knowledge of philosophy and yet in an accessible and rhetorically outstanding manner a concept that determines today's social debates – plurality – in a critical examination of Hannah Arendt's work.«
The prize, endowed with 60,000 Euros in total, has been awarded since the inaugural Leipzig Book Fair in 2005 and honours outstanding new publications in the categories fiction, non-fiction and translation. This year’s prize giving will be held on 17 March.
For more information please visit the authors' Foreign Rights Websites or contact the respective Rights Manager.