Jürgen Becker awarded Georg Büchner Prize 2014

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29.05.2014

The German Academy for Language and Literature has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, which includes a € 50.000 grant, to writer Jürgen Becker. The prize will be presented on October 25, 2014.

The jury states: »Jürgen Becker is one of the leading voices in contemporary poetry, whose works have strongly affected the German poetry over generations. Over decades his oeuvre has insistently remeasured and altered the boundaries of prose and poetry. His poems teach us vividly to observe our environment and language more attentively.«

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Jürgen Becker

Jürgen Becker was born in Cologne in 1932. After abandoning his studies at university, he began working as a freelance writer and for years he made his living with various jobs. He worked for the broadcasting station WDR and for the publishing houses Rowohlt and Suhrkamp. He was head of the radio drama department of Deutschlandfunk for twenty years, until 1993.

Jürgen Becker received great attention with his first work of prose, Felder (1964), while the two subsequent books Ränder (1968) and Umgebungen (1970) consolidated his reputation as an author of experimental literature. At the same time, he contributed to the emergence of the New Radio Play with his first radio plays. In the 1970s and 1980s, Jürgen Becker focused his...

Jürgen Becker

Jürgen Becker was born in Cologne in 1932. After abandoning his studies at university, he began working as a freelance writer and for years...