International Booker Prize für deutsche Autorin Erpenbeck
Die Schriftstellerin Jenny Erpenbeck hat als erste Deutsche den renommierten britischen International Booker Prize gewonnen. In ihrem Roman "Kairos" erzählt sie eine komplizierte Lebensgeschichte in der Endphase der DDR.
The shortlist for this year's International Booker Prize has been announced and comprises six novels in six languages, spanning cultures, styles and more. "Our shortlist opens onto vast geographies of the mind, often showing lives lived against the backdrop of history or, more precisely, interweaving the intimate and the political in radically original ways," says Eleanor Wachtel, the chair of the judging panel. Here's more from NPR.
“..the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore..”
Paul Lynch's #BookerPrize winning Prophet Song (2023) warns us about the precariousness of liberal society. The mother's relentless interior monologue explores how we might react as a society breaks down from authoritarian rule to civil war & eventual #migration of victims. While one might argue that this is a developing country story reset in #Ireland merely to enhance Anglo-saxon empathy, this resetting is what emphasises its warning @bookstodon
Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker prize for his dystopian novel, "Prophet Song." Two of his compatriots were on the shortlist and another two made the long list. For @TheConversationUS Orlaith Darling, a Ph.D. candidate at Trinity College Dublin, examines the "golden age" of Irish writing.
Booker Prize 2023 für den irischen Autor Paul Lynch mit Prophet Song
"In 'Prophet Song' zeichnet Lynch eine dystopische Vision von Irland in den Fängen des Totalitarismus. [...] Was diesem Buch zugrunde liege, sei das Gefühl des liberal-demokratischen Abrutschens, das in den vergangenen sechs, acht, vielleicht zehn Jahren weltweit stattgefunden habe."
Borrowed Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein from the library. This copy has a big misprint - about 50 pages are randomly repeated in place of 50 that should be there.
At first I thought wow, these #BookerPrize books really are getting impenetrable 😂 but fortunately I got my hands on a complete copy
The Booker Prize longlist for 2023 has been announced. It comprises 13 titles, including four debut novels. Here's who made the cut, and how the judging panel, helmed by novelist Esi Edugyan, made their selection. “All 13 novels cast new light on what it means to exist in our time, and they do so in original and thrilling ways," Edugyan says.
Booker prize reveals ‘original and thrilling’ 2023 longlist
Previously nominated authors Sebastian Barry, Tan Twan Eng and Paul Murray join 13-strong field including four debuts